As scientists are motivated by readership rather than by royalties, one might doubt that academic copyright is required … open access regime by abolishing academic copyright is currently intensively being discussed. We contribute to this …

best technologies, or only intermediate technologies. No other equilibria can exist. -- Cournot duopoly ; strategic …

In a context of product innovation, we study two-part tariff licensing between a patentee and a potential rival which …

We consider a firm A initially owning a software platform (e.g. operating system) and an application for this platform … against expropriation of rents. The different pieces of software are considered as assets in the sense of the property rights … firms invest in physical (and not in human) capital and that there is non-rivalry in consumption for software. -- Platforms …

, compatibility standards ensure the interoperability of goods, which is of decisive importance when users face positive externalities … expectations, this book aims at deepening our understanding of how standards and expectations interact. The models are applied to …