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sales price of a developed innovation. This will trigger preemptive acquisitions by incumbents, thus increasing the reward …
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growth. In this paper we study the effects of tax and subsidy policies on entrepreneurs’ choice of riskiness of an innovation … project and on their mode of commercializing the innovation (market entry versus sale). Limited loss offset provisions in the … fundamental policy trade-off between the declared goals of promoting employment and innovation in small, entrepreneurial firms …
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A principal uses security bid auctions to award an incentive contract to one among several agents, in the presence of hidden action and hidden information. Securities range from cash to equity and call options. “Steeper†securities are better surplus extractors that narrow the gap...
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What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies in the last few decades? We study entrepreneurial policy in a lobbying model taking into account the con.ict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that international market integration leads to more...
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We consider a licensing mechanism for process innovations that combines a license auction with royalty contracts to those who lose the auction. Firms’ bids are dual signals of their cost reductions: the winning bid signals the own cost reduction to rival oligopolists, whereas the losing...
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This paper reconsiders the licensing of a common value innovation to a downstream duopoly, assuming a dual licensing …
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The literature on R&D contests implicitly assumes that contestants submit their innovation regardless of its value …
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' signaling-driven investment, despite the risk of buying a bad innovation. We finally show at what point the presence of active …
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the bidding competition for the innovation and by increasing the relative profitability of being the most efficient firm … innovation for sale, relative to innovation for entry. …
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This paper revisits the licensing of a non–drastic process innovation by an outside innovator to a Cournot oligopoly …
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