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Innovation’S Hidden Externalities, Stephanie Plamondon Bair Jun 2022

Innovation’S Hidden Externalities, Stephanie Plamondon Bair

BYU Law Review

When commentators discuss innovation’s externalities, they often classify them into one of two categories. On the positive externalities, or “spillovers” side, legal and economics scholars often speak of the benefits innovation confers on other innovators. Future innovators profit from past innovation as they “stand on the shoulders of giants” to develop progressively new and better innovation. Discussion of innovation’s negative externalities, on the other hand, has mainly focused on social harms not directly related to future innovation that particular advances impose on third parties—the classic example being pollution. Thus, the common understanding is that innovation’s spillovers positively impact innovation (among …


Does Climate Change Justify Compulsory Licensing Of Green Technology?, Robert Fair Jan 2010

Does Climate Change Justify Compulsory Licensing Of Green Technology?, Robert Fair

Brigham Young University International Law & Management Review

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