harmful for innovation and if so, whether compulsory licensing can provide an effective remedy. The consent decree settled an … to license all its existing patents royalty-free. The compulsory licensing increased follow-on innovation building on … Bell patents by 17%. This effect is driven mainly by young and small companies. Yet, innovation increased only outside the …

domestic welfare. We consider the potential implementation of three innovation agreements: cooperative research joint venture …

This paper analyzes patent pools and their effects on innovation incentives. It is shown that the pro …-competitive effects of patent pools for complementary patents naturally extend for dynamic innovation incentives. However, this simple … patents reduce social welfare as they charge higher licensing fees and chill subsequent innovation incentives. …

business stealing effect. Commercialization support induces entrepreneurship but may lead to mediocre entrepreneurship by … inducing entrepreneurs to choose less risky projects, whereas R&D support encourages entrepreneurship without affecting the … type of entrepreneurship. We develop a regression framework to test empirical predictions of the model. Within our …

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are …

. Barriers to entrepreneurship, to setting up new firms and to innovations which are prevalent on goods and capital markets also …