The Moderna Model
On Tuesday, the federal government announced an agreement with Moderna to purchase 100 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine. Moderna was one of the firms that testified before the House [...]
Internet Archive Files Response to Publishers’ Lawsuit
The Internet Archive has filed its answer to the lawsuit filed by four publishers (Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley, and Penguin Random House) who allege copyright infringement of 127 works in IA’s [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, August 11th
News and Commentary The Cato Institute's Building Tomorrow podcast features Joel Waldfogel discussing how the digitization of the cultural economy, far from harming the growth and production of creative works, [...]
Crisis-Critical Intellectual Property: Findings From the COVID-19 Pandemic
A pandemic calls for large-scale action across national and international innovation systems in order to mobilize resources for developing and manufacturing crisis-critical products efficiently and in the huge quantities needed. [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, August 4th
Rent Check The House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing on the state of coronavirus vaccine research and deployment. Significant focus was placed on selling the drug at nonprofit [...]
Thoughts on the E&C Vaccine Hearing
The Tuesday before last, the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing with executives from the major pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Moderna, and Pfizer about the [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, July 28th
News and Commentary Mark Bilby makes an impassioned case for why research should be available to make the publishing industry a means of human progress by allowing the free flow [...]
Technological Improvement Rate Estimates for All Technologies: Use of Patent Data and an Extended Domain Description
In this work, we attempt to provide a comprehensive granular account of the pace of technological change. More specifically, we survey estimated yearly performance improvement rates for nearly all definable [...]
Time to Stop the Exploitation of Free Academic Labour
Commercial publishing houses continue to make unbounded profits while exploiting the free labour of researchers through peer review. If publishers are to be compensated financially for the value that they [...]
The Causal Effects of R&D Grants: Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity
Direct public support for business R&D is a well-established remedy to market failures, yet empirical evidence on its effectiveness yields conflicting results. The paper investigates the impact of the first [...]