演講者簡介 : Prof. Eric Maskin 為Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics，Harvard University (1976)。
現為普林斯頓高等研究院Albert O. Hirschman講座教授。
其主要研究領域為Economic Theory及Game Theory。
已發表學術論文百餘篇，包括AER, Econometrica, QJE, JPE, RES等。
演講摘要 : We argue that when discoveries are "sequential" (so that each successive invention builds in an essential way on its predecessors) patent protection is not as useful for encouraging innovation as in a static setting. Indeed, society and even inventors themselves may be better off without such protection. Furthermore, an inventor's prospective profit may actually be enhanced by competition and imitation. Our sequential model of innovation appears to explain evidence from a natural experiment in the software industry.
