The development of formal ICT standards is a challenging form of collaborative innovation, combining consensus decision … panel of standards, we then confirm empirically the prediction that consortia have different effects on innovation under a … Public Good or Rent Seeking regime. Overall, we observe an increase in innovation after a firm joined a consortium. However …

Over 2 million patents are currently in force in the EU and in the USA. Do they testify innovation is blockaded for … they restrict freedom in research or do they give evidence innovation is flourishing for patent law provides incentives to … invent new products and processes? In other terms do patents freeze or spur innovation? The question arises for massive …

intellectual property is more than ever at the heart of so-called knowledge economies, it aims to show the contribution that …