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The motives behind merger and acquisitions (M&A) are often linked with the opportunities to obtain knowledge and technologies in order to enhance the competitive advantages of companies. In particular, the acquisition of digital technologies through mergers and acquisitions with ICT companies is...
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A proposal for moving from price-centric to innovation-centric competition policy, reviewing theory and evidence on economic incentives for innovation. Competition policy and antitrust enforcement have traditionally focused on prices rather than innovation. Economic theory shows the ways that...
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technologies protected by a patent and we investigate whether an acquisition by a big tech contributes to their development. For … this analysis, we use patent citations as a proxy for the innovation effort by the acquirer. Our main result is to show … patent belongs to a core technology field of the acquiring firm or to a large patent portfolio. On the contrary, citations by …
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