and prices are endogenously determined in equilibrium, (ii) how license restrictiveness impacts equilibrium investments … and the quality of offerings, and (iii) how license restrictiveness affects consumer surplus and social welfare. Although … restrictive license instead encourages greater effort from the OSS contributor, leads to higher OSS quality, and provides a larger …

We consider choice of options for a foreign innovating firm to license its technology for producing the high quality … good to a domestic firm, or to enter the market of the domestic country with or without license. Under the assumption of … sufficiently high, license without entry strategy is optimum; if the low quality good’s quality is low, both of entry without …