This paper considers those sectors of the economy that operate under the same regimes of rewarding private innovators as others, but differ in that they face recurring problems of resistance, as occur in the pharmaceutical and agricultural industries. This recurrence originates in the natural...

The performance of the Philippine automotive industry has steadily improved after the Asian crisis. However, relative to the performance of the automotive industry in other countries, the automotive sector in the country has languished. To understand the challenges being faced by the automotive...

What is the impact of the removal of barriers to trade on the firms' innovative activities? Does the increase in competition arising from trade reforms lead to increases in innovation? This paper attempts to examine the link between trade liberalization and innovation using firm panel data on...

We examine whether cooperation in R&D leads to product market collusion. Suppose that firms engage in a stochastic R&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...

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...

A key input to inventive activity is human capital. Hence it is important to understand the monetary incentives of inventors. We estimate the effect of patented inventions on individual earnings by linking data on U.S. patents and their inventors to Finnish employer-employee data. Returns are...

This paper reconsiders the licensing of a common value innovation to a downstream duopoly, assuming a dual licensing scheme that combines a first-price license auction with royalty contracts for losers. Prior to bidding firms observe imperfect signals of the expected cost reduction; after the...

Die Strukturpolitik Nordrhein-Westfalens hat sich lange darauf konzentriert, den Strukturwandel im Ruhrgebiet zu bewältigen. Eine Vielzahl neuer Hochschulen entstand, die Infrastruktur wurde ausgebaut, in den rasch wachsenden Dienstleistungssektoren wurde überall im Land eine Fülle neuer...

In den 90er Jahren hat die deutsche Wirtschaft bei forschungsintensiven Waren und wissensintensiven Dienstleistungen im internationalen Vergleich etwas an Boden verloren, insbesondere gegenüber den USA. Deutschland ist es im letzten Jahrzehnt weniger gut gelungen, die Potentiale an...