Innovation and Institutions is an extensive elaboration on the make up of systems of innovation. It examines why some … countries are more innovative than others, why national styles of innovation differ, and goes on to explore why some countries …

This collection investigates the phenomenon of ""Open Innovation,"", in which firms draw on research and development … that may lie outside their own boundaries. The book's contributors link the practice of innovation to the established body … of innovation rsearch, showing what's new and what's familiar in the process. Looking in depth at a process recently …

Front cover -- The Economics of Innovation -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- The Editors … -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 2. Innovation, Duplication, and the Contract Theory of Patents -- Abstract -- 1 …