Cover -- Inventing Ideas -- Copyright -- Contents -- List Of Tables And Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Knowledge, Institutions, And Economic Progress -- 2. Trolls And Other Patent Inventions -- 3. Inventing Prizes -- 4. Elites And Useful Knowledge In Britain -- 5. Prestige And Profit: The Royal Society Of Arts -- 6. Administered Invention In France -- 7. Going For Gold: Prizing Innovation -- 8. Creative Destruction: War And Technology -- 9. Of Apples And Ideas: Knowledge Spillovers In Patents And Prizes -- 10. Designing Women: Gender And Innovation 11. Selling Ideas: Global Markets For Patented Inventions -- 12. Innovations In Law -- 13. National Innovation Systems And Innovation In Nations -- 14. Conclusion: Now And Then -- Appendixes -- Select Bibliography -- Index B. Zorina Khan. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.