Rent-seeking and innovation

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Cumulative Research and the Patent Law

Suzanne Scotchmer · The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 1991 · 1.3K citations

Management, Innovation Management, Intellectual Property Law +14

Innovation and Communication: Signalling with Partial Disclosure

Sudipto Bhattacharya, Jay R. Ritter · The Review of Economic Studies · 1983 · 772 citations

Social Sciences, Communication, Economics +13

Sequential innovation, patents, and imitation

James Bessen, Eric Maskin · The RAND Journal of Economics · 2009 · 742 citations

Management, Economics, Innovation Management +11

Little Patents and Big Secrets: Managing Intellectual Property

James J. Anton, Dennis A. Yao · The RAND Journal of Economics · 2004 · 438 citations

Law, Innovation Management, Intellectual Property Law +14

Expropriation and Inventions: Appropriable Rents in the Absence of Property Rights

James J. Anton, Dennis A. Yao · American Economic Review · 1994 · 410 citations

Business, Business Economics, Economics +12