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Public provision of a private good: What is the point of the BSD license?
Gaudeul, Alex - EconWPA - 2005
Software is a potentially excludable public good. It is possible, at some cost, to exclude non-paying users from its consumption by using copyright law or technological restraints. Licensing the software under proprietary license terms makes of it a private good, licensing it under the BSD does...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134417
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Little Firms and Big Patents: The Incentives To Disclose Competencies
Gick, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 2004
This paper offers a theoretical treatment of information disclosure through patenting. We consider a signaling model in which two domestic firms disclose their competencies to a foreign firm. Conditions are discussed under which separating and pooling equilibria occur, together with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134533
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Innovation, Inequality and Intellectual Property Rights
Weinhold, Diana; Reichert, Usha Nair- - EconWPA - 2004
The existing literature on the sources and nature of productivity growth during the early industrialization stages of U.S. has identified the combination of intellectual property rights (IPRs) with a large middle class and broad participation in markets as explanations for the extraordinary...
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Economic Growth with Imperfect Protection of Intellectual Property Rights
Horii, Ryo; Iwaisako, Tatsuro - EconWPA - 2005
The growth effects of intellectual property right (IPR) protection are examined in a quality-ladder model of endogenous growth. Stronger IPR protection, which reduces the probability of imitation, raises the reward for innovation. However, stronger protection reduces the number of competitive...
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The Economics of Open Source Hijacking and Declining Quality of Digital Information Resources: A Case for Copyleft
Ciffolilli, Andrea - EconWPA - 2004
The economics of information goods suggest the need for institutional intervention to address the problem of revenue extraction from investments in resources characterized by high fixed costs of production and low marginal costs of reproduction and distribution. Solutions to the appropriation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118747
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Does patenting increase the private incentives to innovate? A microeconometric analysis
Emmanuel, DUGUET; Claire, LELARGE - EconWPA - 2004
This paper examines whether patenting increases the private incentives to innovate in manufacturing. To study this issue, we build a model in which the value of an innovation depends both on the type of innovation implemented (product, process) and on the existence of a patent protection or not....
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Understanding Patents: The Role of R&D Funding Sources and the Patent Office
Sanyal, Paroma - EconWPA - 2005
This paper analyzes the effects of different sources of R&D funding and patent office attributes on the patenting process. Another important contribution is modeling the effect of a random delay in the ‘pendency’ time as a stochastic process and quantifying its effect on patenting. The...
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Peanut Butter Patents Versus the New Economy: Does the Increased Rate of Patenting Signal More Invention or Just Lower Standards?
Sanyal, Paroma - EconWPA - 2005
appears to be driven to a significant extent by an increase in the underlying invention rate. …
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Competitive disadvantage through non-existing software patents
Weiss, Pia - EconWPA - 2004
In a model of sequential patent races, it is examined whether or not introducing a patent law in the home country is beneficial to the firms and the society as a whole given the foreign country already offers patent protection. Before the first patent race starts, the firms and the foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062435
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Invention under uncertainty and the threat of ex post entry
Miller, David A. - EconWPA - 2005
This paper proposes a theoretical framework for studying the invention of new products when demand is uncertain. In … this framework, under general conditions, the threat of ex post entry by a competitor can deter invention ex ante … operating system monopolist, by its mere presence, can deter the invention of complements, to its own detriment as well as that …
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