substantially higher franchise during World War II interacted with the crisis induced by the war to cause a permanent expansion of …

model that helps understand how licensing activity should be organized within large corporations. More specifically, we … compare decentralization—where the business unit using the technology makes licensing decisions—to centralized licensing. The … business unit has superior information about licensing opportunities but may not have the appropriate incentives because its …

of competition between potential buyers has countervailing effects on this condition. An empirical analysis of licensing …

Baumol have suggested that "the concept of a ‘reasonable’ royalty for purposes of RAND licensing must be defined and … the outcome of an ex ante auction process where IP owners submit RAND commitments coupled with licensing terms and … selection to the standard is based on both technological merit and licensing terms. In this paper we investigate whether the ex …

concession level required of sponsors and (b) a positive correlation between the sponsor-friendliness of the selected SSO and the … royalty-free licensing is negatively associated with disclosure requirements, and the relationship between concessions and …

Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this Paper, we measure the …-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of Health pro- ides an exogenous source of variation in re-licensing outcomes … due to occupational entry restrictions and negative selection into licensing status. We develop a model of optimal license …

We explore potential methods for assessing whether licensing terms for intellectual property declared essential within …

compete with them. Such a strategy is difficult to explain within traditional models of licensing. This paper extends the … literature on licensing by relaxing the assumption of a monopolist technology holder. We develop a model with many technological … trajectories for the production of a differentiated good. We find that competition in the market for technology induces licensing …

This paper is a study of licensing in a patent thicket. In a patent thicket licensing allows firms to avoid hold-up. It …. Building on a model of a patent portfolio race, firms' choice between these types of licensing contracts is modelled. We find … that firms' relationships in product markets and technology space jointly determine the type of licensing contract chosen …