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 …

innovators are not protected against others appropriating their ideas, incentives for innovation are suboptimally low. Now, in … most industries and for most potential users, appropriating a foreign innovation is itself an investment decision fraught … with cost and risk. Nonetheless, standard theory predicts too little innovation. Arguably the problem is exacerbated by the …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is …

(Ausbau der Infrastruktur, Sachkapitalförderung) inzwischen kaum mehr festzustellen. Forschung und Innovation sind hingegen …