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This paper builds a theoretical foundation for the dynamics of knowledge sharing in private industry. In practice, research and development projects can take years or even decades to complete. We model an uncertain research process, where research projects consist of multiple sequential steps....
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This paper builds a theoretical foundation for the dynamics of knowledge sharing in private industry. In practice, research and development projects can take years or even decades to complete. We model an uncertain research process, where research projects consist of multiple sequential steps....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005458699
heavy electrical industry firms, compares organization behaviour, management decision making, Innovation research and … the role of patents and licensing. Questionnaire. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966481
innovation for less than the full length of the patent and that royalty contracts can be used to overcome a time …We model an innovator's choice of payment scheme and duration as a joint decision in a multi-period licensing game with …-consistency problem faced by the innovator. Our results suggest that licensing contracts based on royalty have a longer duration than …
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innovation for less than the full length of the patent and that royalty contracts can be more profitable than fixed-fee licensing …We model an innovator's choice of payment scheme and duration as a joint decision in a multi-period licensing game with … even in the absence of information asymmetry and risk aversion. Moreover, licensing contracts based on royalty have a …
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particular industry - standards generate potential for market power far beyond the legal protection conferred by patents. Patent … that have fueled antitrust debates and economic research during the last decade. On the one hand, patent owners may be … tempted to collude by coordinating their licensing policies. The difficulty here is that some coordination between them within …
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property. It is organized around the two principal objectives of intellectual property law: promoting innovation and aesthetic … creativity (focusing on patent, trade secret, and copyright protection) and protecting integrity of the commercial marketplace … protection and other means of addressing the economic problem (such as public funding and prizes in the case of patent and …
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The authors develop a theoretical model where two competing firms need access to basic knowledge that only one firm owns. They determine the impact of an imperfect property right on the incentive to transfer that knowledge to the competitor. They compare these transfer strategies. (i) Patenting...
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This dissertation analyzes the impact of network externalities on R&D competition in an oligopolistic industry. It focuses on the level of R&D investments, the social efficiency of those efforts and the role of networks compatibility. The analysis is taken under different specifications and...
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This paper studies the diffusion of a new technology that is brought to market while its potential is still uncertain. We consider a dynamic game in which an incumbent and a startup firm improve both a new and a rival old technology while learning about the relative potential of both...
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