Handbook of the Economics of Innovation (Volume 1) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0444519955 ISBN 13: 9780444519955

Publisher: North Holland, 2010

Synopsis

Economists examine the genesis of technological change and the ways we commercialize and diffuse it. The economics of property rights and patents, in addition to industry applications, are also surveyed through literature reviews and predictions about fruitful research directions.

Two volumes, available as a set or sold separately

• Expert articles consider the best ways to establish optimal incentives in technological progress
• Science and innovation, both their theories and applications, are examined at the intersections of the marketplace, policy, and social welfare
• Economists are only part of an audience that includes attorneys, educators, and anyone involved in new technologies

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From the Back Cover

How does technology advance? How can we best assimilate innovation? These questions and others are considered by experts on the theories and applications of technological innovations. Considering subjects as diverse as the diffusion of new technologies and their industrial applications, governmental policies, and manifestations of innovation in our institutions, history,and environment, our contributors map milestones in research and speculate about the roads ahead. Wasteful, inefficient, and frequently wrongheaded, the process of technological changes is here revealed as a describable, scientific force.

Edition details

• Publisher: North Holland
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0444519955
• ISBN 13: 9780444519955
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 808
• Editor: Hall Bronwyn H., Rosenberg Nathan