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Essays on Offshoring, Wage Inequality and Innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
. The second chapter provides a theory of offshoring under imitation risk that explains optimal dynamic adjustments of firms … intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698346
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Hybrid R&D
Goyal, Sanjeev; Konovalov, Alexander; Moraga, Jose Luis - 2003
We develop a model of R&D collaboration in which individual firms carry out in-house research on core activities and undertake bilateral joint projects on non-core activities with other firms. We develop conditions on the profit functions of the firm under which R&D investments in different...
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The Efficiency and Evolution of R&D Networks
König, Michael D.; Battiston, S.; Napoletano, M.; … - 2008
This work introduces a new model to investigate the efficiency and evolution of networks of firms exchanging knowledge in R&D partnerships. We first examine the efficiency of a given network structure in terms of the maximization of total profits in the industry. We show that the efficient...
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Auctioning Process Innovations when Losers' Bids Determine Royalty Rates
Fan, Cuihong; Jun, Byoung Heon; Wolfstetter, Elmar G. - 2009
We consider a licensing mechanism for process innovations that combines a license auction with royalty contracts to those who lose the auction. Firms' bids are dual signals of their cost reductions: the winning bid signals the own cost reduction to rival oligopolists, whereas the losing bid...
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Licensing a common value innovation when signaling strength may backfire
Fan, Cuihong; Jun, Byoung Heon; Wolfstetter, Elmar G. - 2010
This paper reconsiders the licensing of a common value innovation to a downstream duopoly, assuming a dual licensing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334125
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On Biology and Technology: The Economics of Managing Biotechnologies
Goeschl, Timo; Swanson, Timothy - 2003
. Under speed-dependent evolution, a patent-based system will fail to target socially optimal innovation size. The overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325083
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Collusion and research joint ventures
Miyagiwa, Kaz - 2007
&D race while maintaining the collusive equilibrium in a repeated-game framework. Innovation under competitive R&D creates … inter-firm asymmetries, which destabilizes the collusive equilibrium. Innovation sharing through cooperative R&D preserves … the collusion stability but also raises social welfare. Interestingly, a welfare improvement is less likely if innovation …
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Value generation by industrial research
Brockhoff, Klaus - 1995
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Entrepreneurship and innovation
Ács, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B. - 2005
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Open source software, closed source software or both: impacts on industry growth and the role of intellectual property rights
von Engelhardt, Sebastian; Swaminathan, Sushmita - 2008
There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software …
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