Patent Licensing: The Inside Story.
In this paper we compare and contrast the most profitable modes of licensing a cost-reducing invention by an inventor who is an industry incumbent with one who is not. We find that an industry incumbent favors licensing by means of a royalty per unit of output to which the new technology is applied while an outsider prefers to auction off a fixed number of licences outright. Our analysis also suggests that an outside inventor finds it most profitable to target greater cost-reducing inventions to monopolistic industries while an incumbent inventor favors competitive industries. Copyright 2002 by Blackwell Publishers Ltd and The Victoria University of Manchester
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2002
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Authors: | Kamien, Morton I ; Tauman, Yair |
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Manchester School. - School of Economics, ISSN 1463-6786. - Vol. 70.2002, 1, p. 7-15
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School of Economics |
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