Download or read book Patents, Innovation and Economic Performance written by and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains a collection of policy-oriented papers prepared for an OECD conference on the development of patent regimes, innovation and economic performance, held in Paris in August 2003. The papers are grouped under five key themes of: links between patents and economic performance; changes in patents regimes; entrepreneurship and technology diffusion; intellectual property rights (IPR) for software and services; current and future policy challenges.