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Adam B. Jaffe
Fred C. Hecht Professor in Economics photo: Michael Lovett |
Phone: 781-736-4875 | fax: 781-736-2269 | email: ajaffe@brandeis.edu |
MY BOOKS
INNOVATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS : HOW OUR BROKEN PATENT SYSTEM IS ENDANGERING INNOVATION AND PROGRESS, AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT (with Josh Lerner), Princeton University Press, 2004; issued in paperback, 2006
Link to Princeton University Press
PATENTS, CITATIONS AND INNOVATIONS: A WINDOW ON THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY (With Manuel Trajtenberg), M.I.T. Press, 2002; issued in paperback, 2005
The book comes with a CD containing the complete NBER Patent Citations Database
MATERIALS AVAILABLE ON THIS WEBSITE
"Measuring Science, Technology, and Innovation: A Review"(Co-authored with Bronwyn H. Hall) A
report
prepared
for
the
Panel
on
Developing
Science,
Technology,
and
Innovation
Indicators
for
the
Future,
National
Academies
of
Science, May 2012
"Technology Policy and Climate Change" Forthcoming in Climate Change Economics.
"The 'Science of Science Policy': Reflections on the Important Questions and the Challenges They Present." Keynote Address at the NSF Workshop on Advancing Measures of Innovation: Knowledge Flows, Business Metrics, and Measurement Strategies, June 2006
"Peanut Butter Patents Versus the New Economy: Does the Increased Rate of Patenting Signal More Invention or Just Lower Standards?" (with P. Sanyal), Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, April, 2004
"The NBER Patent Citations Data File: Lessons, Insights and Methodological Tools" (Co-authored with Bronwyn H. Hall and Manuel Trajtenberg) September, 2001
"Research on Research: What We Know and Don't Know About the Payoffs to Research" Presentation to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, July, 2001
"Building Program Evaluation Into the Design of Public Research Support Programs," Paper presented at the Conference TECHNOLOGICAL POLICY AND INNOVATION: Economic and Historical Perspectives, Paris, November 2000
"Brandeis' Jaffe on Frivolous Web Patents," Interview with Investor's Business Daily, June 15, 2000
"Relationship Between Energy-Efficiency Potentials and 'Barriers' to New Technology," graphic from presentation at the AEA Session on Global Climate Change Policy, January, 2000