We analyze firms' investment in product innovation when there are heterogeneous consumer switching costs in markets … increase investment in product innovation to remain competitive, while an industry leader's best strategy is to increase R … product standardization) unambiguously increases consumer surplus and overall welfare but may affect product innovation …

We investigate the incentives of a high-quality firm to transfer for free its proprietary product innovation technology …

appropriability regimes are not extremely tight, patents are permeable, so firms need alternative value appropriation tools. To … clarify the efficacy of patents in such appropriability regimes, this article presents an analysis of synergies across value … synergistic, with advertising spends increasing value appropriation ability of patents. Finally, product contextual factors, i …

We characterize the effect of overlapping ownership (OO) on investments in product innovation. We analyze two opposing … technology affects the threshold required for OO to possibly stimulate investments in innovation …