Jaffe, Adam, and Josh Lerner. Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System Is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What To Do About It. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, ...

In fact, I said (closing my answer with a Niall Ferguson quote), ‘the law of intended consequences is the only real law of ...

Recombinant innovation is a phrase from the book The Second Machine Age that highlights the way new applications are invented from a combination of existing technologies. For example, the Waze ...