Incentives for innovation: Patents, Prizes, and Research contracts

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 206-241

  Clancy, Matthew S ^a   Moschini, GianCarlo ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive grants; Growth; Incentives; Innovation prizes; Intellectual property; Monopoly; Patents; Public goods; Research and development; Research contracts; Science policy; Tournaments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877154464     PISSN: 20405790     EISSN: 20405804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aepp/ppt012     Document Type: Article

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