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Patent protection and innovation in a vertical structure
Basak, Debasmita; Mukherjee, Arijit - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 1, pp. 837-842
We show a new way through which patent protection affects innovation. We show that patent protection may reduce the … final goods producers' incentives for innovation in industries with imperfectly competitive input markets. The input market …
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Licensing and Patent Protection
Bagchi, Aniruddha; Mukherjee, Arijit - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 3, pp. 2010-2016
may not be the equilibrium outcome in the presence of licensing. Depending on the cost of innovation, licensing may either …
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Knowledge diffusion under patent with asymmetric firms
Mukherjee, Arijit; Sinha, Uday Bhanu - In: Economics Bulletin 12 (2007) 9, pp. 1-6
We show that if patent protection and trade secrecy generate asymmetric market structure, an innovator may prefer patent protection than trade secrecy even if the diffusion probability is higher under the former but it increases market concentration by preventing some imitators. So, whether an...
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