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September special Issue on "Patents, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation"

10/07/2013
The September issue of Journal of Industrial Economics will be devoted to patents "Patents, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation" and the special editor in charge of the issue is Mark Schankerman, a...

ACE conference

10/07/2013
The Association for Competition Economics will held its annual conference in Brussels on December 13-14.
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Welcome to our new associate editors

07/17/2013
The list of associate editors has been significantly expanded. AE are a fantastic resources for the editors and we welcome them warmly aboard JINDEC.
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New editor starting in July 2013

06/19/2013
The editorial board thanks Saul Lach for his great service as an editor. Saul is leaving us in July and will be replaced by Chad Syverson from the university of Chicago. 
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