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Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation

Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

innovation. We exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the 'revealed preference' of developers - to infer the underlying …

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The hold-up problem, innovations, and limited liability

Schmitz, Patrick W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

An inventor can invest research effort to come up with an innovation. Once an innovation is made, a contract is …

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Exclusive versus Non-exclusive Licensing Strategies and Moral Hazard

Schmitz, Patrick W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

An upstream firm can license its innovation to downstream firms that have to exert further development effort. There …

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Task Scheduling and Moral Hazard

Mylovanov, Tymofiy; Schmitz, Patrick W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We study a two-period moral hazard problem with risk-neutral and wealth-constrained agents and three identical tasks. We show that the allocation of tasks over time is important if there is a capacity constraint on the number of tasks that can be performed in one period. We characterize the...

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Competition, Entry, and the Social Returns to Infrastructure in Transition Economies

Aghion, Philippe; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper presents a simple model for analysing the contribution of investments in physical and institutional infrastructure to the transition process. In addition to the direct cost savings, infrastructure investment generates important indirect effects, or transition impacts. The model shows...

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Trading and Enforcing Patent Rights

Galasso, Alberto; Schankerman, Mark; Serrano, Carlos - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study how the market for innovation affects enforcement of patent rights. Conventional wisdom associates the gains … potential gains from trade are more likely to change ownership, suggesting that the market for innovation is efficient. We also …

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Optimal Allocation of Ownership Rights in Dynamic R&D Alliances

Rosenkranz, Stephanie; Schmitz, Patrick W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

We explore the dynamic evolution of property rights regimes in R&D alliances using the incomplete contract approach pioneered by Grossman, Hart and Moore (Hart and Moore, Journal of Political Economy (1990), and Grossman and Hart, Journal of Political Economy (1986)). In contrast to the standard...

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Patents and Cumulative Innovation: Causal Evidence from the Courts

Galasso, Alberto; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Cumulative innovation is central to economic growth. Do patent rights facilitate or impede such follow-on innovation …. Patent rights appear to block follow-on innovation only in the technology fields of computers, electronics and medical … small innovators, suggesting that patents may impede the ‘democratization’ of innovation. …

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Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry

Bloom, Nicholas; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Support for many R&D and technology policies relies on empirical evidence that R&D ‘spills over’ between firms. But there are two countervailing R&D spillovers: positive effects from technology spillovers and negative effects from business stealing by product market rivals. We develop a...

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Harnessing Success: Determinants of University Technology Licensing Performance

Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We study the impact of incentive pay, local development objectives and government constraints on university licensing performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new survey information together with panel data on U.S. universities for...

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