The present paper reconsiders the inside innovators’ licensing problem under incomplete information. Employing an …

of artists for strong or weaker form (e.g., licensing of rights for home production) of copyright may be related to their …

licensing. I also consider that a trade secret might accidentally leak to the public and thus lose its economic value, thereby … licensing. Finally, considering that the probability of leakage might increase with the number of firms practising a secret, I …

sufficiently high. Finally, we investigate a class of licensing agreements used to settle patent disputes between patent holders …

existing examples of collaborative licensing models. Those models are examined from a theoretical perspective and tested in a …

initial inventor at the ex post licensing stage. By opting for a narrower patent and unprotected publication, the initial … licensing fees. Counterintuitively, in cumulative innovation settings, less protection benefits the patentee. This finding may …

; versus industries based on complex products, where patents are primarily licensing tools. In a complex production process … surplus attributable to IP approaches zero. The value of the same patent held by a lagging producer for licensing to the … leader does not approach zero, so the ratio of value for licensing to value for maintaining a leading monopoly diverges to …