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 …

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 …

We analyze the strategic protection decision of an innovator between a patent and secrecy in a setting with … the disclosure requirement linked to a patent application as well as the problem of legally inventing around a patent can …

. Under speed-dependent evolution, a patent-based system will fail to target socially optimal innovation size. The overall … competitors. The paper examines the capacity for decentralised patent-based incentive mechanisms to result in socially optimal … incompatibility between the dynamics of the patent system and the dynamics of the resistance problem under both types of evolution …

studied for a new type of innovation where new technologies reduce emissions of a specific pollutant but at the same time … cause a new type of damage. A robust finding is that the efficiency of permits is affected by monopoly pricing of the patent …-holding firm. This result carries over to other types of innovation. Taxes are inefficient if technologies produce perfect …

their inward looking or exploitation attitude in R&D and innovation. We argue that because of sunk costs and learning … size. We find that the US States populated by larger firms show a higher share of patent self-citations normalized by their … exhibits a significant effect on patent self-citations normalized by patent shares. This supports our point that the inward …

The paper attempts a critical assessment of both the theory and the empirical evidence on the role of appropriability … and in particular of Intellectual Property Right (IPR) as incentives for technological innovation. We start with a …-market institutions in the innovation process. Next, we examine the recent changes in the IPR regimes and their influence upon both rates …