This paper investigates in an exploratory manner the licensing strategies pursued by firms whose business model is … based on developing and licensing out their intellectual property rights (IPRs). These are not traditional suppliers, since … exists about these IP vendors, there has been no systematic investigation of how they use licensing to appropriate value from …

We study the impact of private ownership, incentive pay and local development objectives on university licensing … performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new survey information together … pay than public ones, but ownership does not affect licensing performance conditional on the use of incentive pay …

uncertainty, firms frequently engage in R&D collaborations, e.g., Research Joint Ventures (RJVs), and licensing agreements. While … RJVs are well explored in the literature, very little is known about the use of licensing agreements. Building on a novel … database which includes licensing agreements in the semiconductor industry between 1989 and 1999, we estimate a bivariate …

sufficiently high. Finally, we investigate a class of licensing agreements used to settle patent disputes between patent holders …