Scientific Grant Funding
This chapter provides an overview of grant funding as an innovation policy tool aimed at both practitioners and science policy scholars. We first discuss how grants relate to other contractual [...]
Blind Spot: How the COVID-19 Outbreak Shows the Limits of Pharma’s Monopoly Model
As yet another coronavirus spreads around the globe, scientists are once again trying to develop new treatments and vaccines. Much remains unknown about this family of viruses. But we know [...]
The Effects of Prize Structures on Innovative Performance
Successful innovation is essential for the survival and growth of organizations but how best to incentivize innovation is poorly understood. We compare how two common incentive schemes affect innovative performance [...]
Is the Supreme Court’s Patentable Subject Matter Test Overly Ambiguous? An Empirical Test
In four cases handed down between 2010 and 2014, the Supreme Court articulated a new two-step patent eligibility test that drastically reduced the scope of patent protection for software inventions. [...]
Copyright and Creativity: Evidence from Italian Operas
This paper exploits variation in the adoption of copyright laws – due to idiosyncratic variation in the timing of Napoléon’s military victories – to investigate the causal effects of copyright [...]
The Uneasy Case for Software Copyrights Revisited
Forty years ago, Justice Stephen Breyer expressed serious doubts about the economic soundness of extending copyright protection to computer programs in his seminal article, The Uneasy Case for Copyright. A [...]
Intellectual Property Law and the Right to Repair
In recent years, there has been a growing push towards state legislation that would provide consumers with a “right to repair” their products. Currently 18 states have pending legislation that [...]
Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2017 – Chapters 1 and 2
"The 2017 Edition reflects the following principal developments: Trade Secrets: Congress passed the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, one of the most momentous changes in the history of trade [...]
The Access to Knowledge Mobilization and the New Politics of Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property law was once an arcane subject. Today it is at the center of some of the most highly charged political contests of our time. In recent years, college [...]
Volition Has No Role to Play in Determining Copyright Infringements
Historically, and consistently, direct copyright infringement has been understood to be a strict liability tort. Unfortunately, some recent lower court decisions addressing infringement of copyrighted content on online platforms could [...]