By Po-Hsuan Hsu, Hsiao-Hui Lee, and Tong Zhou
In order to accelerate knowledge accumulation and technical progress, governments introduced patent systems to encourage inventors to share their ideas, discoveries, and inventions with the public.
James Bessen’s research cited in “Psychedelic Patents are Broken Because the Patent System Is Broken” article in VICE, May 09, 2022.
TPRI’s research cited in ‘Occupational segregation’ drives down women’s pay, says fed labor exec article in WRAL TechWire, March 14, 2022.
Timothy Simcoe quoted in MIT Sloan Review Management, February 28, 2022.
By Andreas Lichter, Max Löffler, Ingo E. Isphording, Thu-Van Nguyen, Felix Poege, Sebastian Siegloch
Advances in pharmaceuticals and vaccines, robotics and artificial intelligence dominate newspaper headlines.
By Tal Gross, Adam Sacarny, Maggie Shi & David Silver
America spends about 6 cents of every dollar at its hospitals. A natural question to ask: why not just pay those hospitals less?
By Stuart V. Craig, Keith Marzilli Ericson, and Amanda Starc
We examined how prices vary between insurers for the same procedure at the same hospital, using a dataset of all commercial Massachusetts hospital claims.
Iain Cockburn, Tim Wilsdon, Michele Pistollato, Rajini Jayasuriya, and Thomas Watson
The 1995 TRIPS Agreement between member states of the World Trade Organization (WTO) defines minimum standards of intellectual property (IP) protection and enforcement.
James Bessen’s article “How big technology systems are slowing innovation: The great IT revolution is no longer promoting economic dynamism. It’s preventing it” in the MIT Technology Review February 17, 2022
James Bessen quoted in The Washington Post, February 14, 2022.