Inventing Ideas: Patents, Prizes, and the Knowledge Economy

by B Zorina Khan and B. Zorina Khan

Book Overview

What determines why some countries succeed and others fall behind?

Economists have long debated the sources of economic growth, resulting in conflicting and often inaccurate claims about the role of the state, knowledge, patented ideas, monopolies, grand innovation prizes, and the nature of disruptive technologies.

B. Zorina Khan's Inventing Ideas overturns conventional thinking and meticulously demonstrates how and why the mechanism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190936088
• ISBN13: 9780190936082
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"