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Professor Petra Moser's joint research on the relationship between patents and innovation is referenced

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Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "In fact, recent studies by Petra Moser and Heidi Williams, among others, find little evidence that patents boost innovation. On the contrary, because they lock in incumbents’ advantages and drive up the costs of new technology, such protections are associated with less new or follow-on innovation, weaker diffusion, and increased market concentration."

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