Marinucci, Marco; Vergote, Wouter - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics … - 2009
In a setting of R&D co-opetition we study, by using an all-pay auction approach, howcollaboration affects strategic … decisions during a patent contest, and how the latter influences thepossible collaboration network structures the firms can hope …. Interestingly, the other possible stablenetworks all have the realistic property that some firms decide not to participate in the …