harmful for innovation and if so, whether compulsory licensing can provide an effective remedy. The consent decree settled an … to license all its existing patents royalty-free. The compulsory licensing increased follow-on innovation building on … Bell patents by 17%. This effect is driven mainly by young and small companies. Yet, innovation increased only outside the …

importance for innovation, technology transfer and economic growth. As such, this important normative material also provides a … Union and Australia; (ii) Japan and Korea; and (iii) the BRICS economies (Brazil, China, India, Russia, and South Africa …

The digital revolution has reinvigorated the discussion about the problem how to consider innovation in the application … of competition law. This raises difficult questions about the relationship between competition and innovation as well as … what kind of assessment concepts competition authorities should use for investigating innovation effects, e.g., in merger …

How does antitrust enforcement against patent-based monopolies affect innovation? I address this question by … ordered to license all its copier-technology patents in the US and abroad. I show that this promoted innovation by other firms … available for licensing. This positive effect is driven by increased innovation by Japanese competitors. They started developing …

The relationship between competition and innovation is difficult to disentangle, as exogenous variation in market …-induced innovation increase by the IG Farben successors, which then spilled over to the wider chemical industry. …

A proposal for moving from price-centric to innovation-centric competition policy, reviewing theory and evidence on … economic incentives for innovation. Competition policy and antitrust enforcement have traditionally focused on prices rather … than innovation. Economic theory shows the ways that price competition benefits consumers; and courts, antitrust agencies …