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Intellectual Property: Im-patent to innovate

25 July 2014

The process of invention has long been a cumulative one, in which incremental advances are made on previous innovations. Cites CEP Discussion Paper No1205 (updated June 2014) by Alberto Galasso and Mark Schankerman on cumulative innovation.

This article was published in The Economist on July 25, 2014
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Related publications
'Patents and Cumulative Innovation: Causal Evidence from the Courts', Alberto Galasso and Mark Schankerman, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No.1205, updated June 2014.

Related links
Mark Shankerman webpage
Productivity and Innovation Programme webpage

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