We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …

results on the relation between patenting and innovation size are then confronted with survey data for small European firms …. Using a binary size measure, we find strong support for the traditional view that firms patent their most important …

Technological standards give rise to a complements problem that affects pricing and innovation incentives of technology … producers. In this paper I discuss how patent pools can be used to solve these problems and what incentives patent holders have … to form a patent pool. I offer some suggestions how competition authorities can foster the formation of welfare …

expensive and innovation investments that increase labor productivity are more profitable. We incorporate this channel in a new …

, innovation and sectoral growth. We find that a stringent reduction target for carbon emissions combined with a CO2-tax leads to …

innovation distinguishing between dirty (internal combustion engine) and clean (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

mechanisms for medium inventions, and patent their most important innovations. This result reestablishes the traditional view …