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Per unit and ad valorem : royalties in a patent licensing game
Montinaro, Marta; Pal, Rupayan; Scimitore, Marcella - 2020
the relative profitability of Cournot vs. Bertrand when a per unit royalty is applied. By contrast, we find that Cournot … yields higher profits than Bertrand under ad valorem royalties, regardless of the strength of network effects. …
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COMPETITION, INNOVATION AND WELFARE
Mukherjee, Arijit - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2005
We show the effects of Bertrand and Cournot competition on R&D investmentand social welfare in a duopoly with R …&D competition where success in R&D isprobabilistic. We show that R&D investments are higher under Bertrand (Cournot)competition when … Cournot competition can generate highersocial welfare in absence of knowledge spillover and this happens if R&D is drastic …
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Process Innovation, Application Compatibility, and Welfare
Maruyama, Masayoshi - 2017
We analyze a model of cost-reducing R&D and compatibility decisions by two platforms. After an exogenous improvement in the efficiency of R&D, each platform has a heightened incentive to make its software incompatible with the rival's hardware device to avoid being dominated in the hardware...
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Licensing and Innovation with Imperfect Contract Enforcement
Gilbert, Richard - 2017
Licensing promotes technology transfer and innovation, but enforcement of licensing contracts is often imperfect. We model contract enforcement as a game with perfect information but probabilistic enforcement and explore the implications of weak enforcement on the design of licensing contracts,...
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Discretely innovating : the effect of limited market contestability on innovation and growth
Bond-Smith, Steven - In: Scottish journal of political economy : the journal of … 69 (2022) 3, pp. 301-327
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Strategic dual sourcing as a driver for free revealing of innovation
Matsushima, Noriaki; Zhao, Laixun - 2015
This paper examines the role of dual sourcing (e.g., outside options) in vertical and horizontal relations. In a bilateral monopoly market, if either the upstream or downstream firm has outside options, the other firm could lose from seemingly positive shocks, e.g., market expansion or...
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Les Pratiques de Prix Dans L'Industrie des Semi-Conducteurs : Les Interactions Entre Prix et Innovation (Pricing Practices In The Semiconductor Industry: Interactions Between Price...
Perrault, Jean-Louis - 2011
Organiser son rattrapage industriel est une opération complexe, que le gouvernement et l'industrie japonais ont réussi, particulièrement dans les nouvelles technologies. Pour autant, la capacité à maîtriser la technique ne suffit pas pour imposer ses marchandises aux acheteurs, notamment...
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The Performance of Incumbent Firms in the Face of Radical Technological Innovation
Hill, Charles W. L.; Rothaermel, Frank T. - 2015
A persistent theme in the academic literature on technological innovation is that incumbent enterprises have great difficulty crossing the abyss created by a radical technological innovation. It is argued that incumbents go into decline, while new entrants rise to market dominance by exploiting...
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Absorbing External Knowledge for Innovation Success - Does the Recipe Work?
Wölfl, Anita - 2014
This paper examines empirically the theoretical relationship between external knowledge and innovation success. Special emphasis is posed on the effects that arise from various types of spillovers and how these effects are influenced by firm-specific absorptive capacities. The results of the...
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Product innovation when consumers have switching costs
Salies, Evens - Centre de recherche en Économie (OFCE), Sciences … - 2011
Economists have long recognized that in free markets, incentives to innovate will be diluted unless some factors grant innovators with a temporary monopoly. Patenting is the most cited factor in the economic literature. This survey concentrates on another factor that confers innovators with...
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