Licensing 2.0 : How to Incentivise around the Prisoner’s Dilemma in SEP Licensing

Licensing platforms are a clear example of a collective action problem, where groups have aligned long-term interests but misaligned short-term goals. Customised incentives can be a key way to facilitate socially desirable collective action, especially where a market or platform includes a range of different actors. Sisvel’s LIFT model for WiFi 6 uses a system of deferred payments to link royalties payments to the uptake of the licensing programme so as to encourage early adopters