Economic growth and breakthrough innovations: A case study of nanotechnology

Lisa Ouellette

No 29, WIPO Economic Research Working Papers from World Intellectual Property Organization - Economics and Statistics Division

Abstract: This paper examines the role of intellectual property and other innovation incentives in the development of one field of breakthrough innovation: nanotechnology. Because nanotechnology is an enabling technology across a wide range of fields, the nanotechnology innovation ecosystem appears to be a microcosm of the global innovation ecosystem. Part I describes the nature of nanotechnology and its economic contribution, Part II explores the nanotechnology innovation ecosystem, and Part III focuses on the role of IP system s in the development of nanotechnology.

Keywords: Innovation; nanotechnology; intellectual property (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 O34 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2015-11
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