inventors in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. We analyse patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to thousands of …We provide new insights into the role of individual inventors in innovation. We focus our analysis on prolific …

particular industry - standards generate potential for market power far beyond the legal protection conferred by patents. Patent … that have fueled antitrust debates and economic research during the last decade. On the one hand, patent owners may be … a patent pool may actually be pro-competitive. After a brief introduction, we explain in the first part why, and on what …

According to a recent literature, the positive effect of competition is supposed to be growing with the proximity to … the technological frontier. Using a variety of indicators, the paper tests the effect of competition and regulation on … 1979-2003. Results show no evidence of a positive effect of competition growing with the proximity to the frontier. Two …

competition on R&D to the cost of innovation. The effect of competition on R&D is an inverted U-shape. However, the shape is … flatter and competition policy is therefore less relevant for innovation when innovations are relatively costly. Intuitively …, if innovations are costly for a firm, competitive shocks have to be significant to alter its innovation decisions …

results known in static frameworks. First, more competition pushes Neck and Neck firms to advertise more to attract a larger …

Innovation is the major instigator in competitive industry. The competition for innovation is traditionally analyzed … of Boone (2001) in order to determine the choice of positioning in a context of cumulative innovation. Thus, taking into … (called first mover) to implement cumulative innovation in order to maintain its position in spite of the investments of …

This paper investigates the choice of an intellectual protection regime for a process innovation. We set up a multi …-stage model in which choosing between patent and trade secrecy is affected by three parameters : the patent strength defined as … the probability that the right is upheld by the court, the cost of imitating a patented innovation relative to the cost of …

the heart of open source model since licenses that organize the innovation and business relationships between developers … licenses and the creation of patent commons, are a testiment to a genuinely creative use of IP law by the open source community …

model in which manufacturers must buy licenses from different patent owners in order to enter the market for differentiated …