property, innovation and diffusion in emerging countries.  It applies this literature to the Indian case.  India  is a … third section the focus turns to recent science, technology and innovation policy in India.  A study of the country …'s potential for innovation by the World Bank in 2007 argued that India must proceed on two fronts.  In addition to considering how …

Using novel data on European firms, this paper examines the effect of business group affiliation on innovation. We find … that business groups foster the scale and novelty of corporate innovation. Group affiliation is particularly important in … industries that rely more on external finance and have a higher degree of information asymmetry. We also find that the innovation …

Economists view intellectual property rights (IPRs) as policy tools for encouraging innovation. There are many types of …

It is shown that spillovers can enhance private returns to innovation if they feed back into the dynamic research of …` knowledge is reabsorbed by its inventor. A simple model of sequential innovation with dynamic spillovers is developed, which …

Models of macroeconomic learning are populated by agents who possess a great deal of knowledge of the "true" structure … of the economy, and yet ignore the impact of their own learning on that structure; they may learn about an equilibrium …, but they do not learn within it.  An alternative learning model is presented where agents' decisions are informed by …

are in the dark about others' actions and the payoff structure.  This paper analyzes learning behavior in such 'black box … we study voluntary contributions games.  We identify two robust features of the players' learning dynamics: search …