Inventing Ideas by Zorina Khan is a significant intellectual contribution to our understanding of both the institutions and incentives for innovation and technological progress. Khan artfully weaves a narrative, provides conceptual clarity, and backs up her propositions with empirical insights to help us understand why certain countries successfully built and executed innovation machines that enabled progress and others did not. A must-read for scholars of
innovation and institutional development."-Karim R. Lakhani, Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
B. Zorina Khan is Professor of Economics at Bowdoin College and National Bureau of Economic Research