Anti-Dismal

This podcast from Words and Numbers discusses the advantages and disadvantages of patents. The patents discussion starts around 12 minutes....

The use of patents versus prizes to stimulate innovation is a long debated subject. Jean Tirole has written, "Consider the patent sys...

Petra Moser explains that copyright protection for 19th century Italian operas led to more and better operas being written, but the evidenc...

Patents are the most well known way for people and firms to protect their intellectual property and gain reward for innovation. But there ar...

There is a new organisational form, called the non-practicing entity (NPE), in the world of intellectual property. NPEs have recently emerge...

This important question is ask by Joshua Gans at the Digitopoly blog. The question is whatever other benefits and faults there might be wi...

This is the title of a new paper by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine which appears in the latest issue (Vol. 27, Issue 1 Winter 2013) of...

My previous post on the protection of intellectual property does raise an interesting question, Why have things like copyright and patents a...

Tim Harford has an interesting column at FT.com on the use of prizes rather than, say, patents to stimulate innovation. Harford points out...