The patent system is used to ______.

a. help innovative firms prosper and promote investment in R & D.
b. prevent companies who make inventions from becoming too profitable
c. decrease investment in R & D and slow the unfettered growth of technology
d. combat overproduction and reduce the damage of negative externalities

a. help innovative firms prosper and promote investment in R & D.

Economics

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According to the Solow model, technological progress will cause output to increase for two reasons. What are these two reasons?

What will be an ideal response?

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Private goods are those for which consumption is

A) rival and excludable. B) rival and nonexcludable. C) nonrival and excludable. D) nonrival and nonexcludable.

Economics