Technological standards give rise to a complements problem that affects pricing and innovation incentives of technology … producers. In this paper I discuss how patent pools can be used to solve these problems and what incentives patent holders have … to form a patent pool. I offer some suggestions how competition authorities can foster the formation of welfare …

discourages entry and reduces innovation incentives, while horizontal integration always benefits from entry and innovation …

also why history matters to regional specialisation patterns. In brief, it seems that innovation clusters as a distinctive … regional entity in international business and the geography of innovation are of increasing importance in STI policy …, innovation systems and competitiveness studies. Recently, more and more research has contributed to an evolutionary perspective …