Research and Development theory and policy. It covers patent policy, the effects of market structure and the internal … -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 2. Innovation, Duplication, and the Contract Theory of Patents -- Abstract -- 1 …A collection of original research papers by a number of industrial organization economists active in the field of …

tying increases innovation, which is an efficiency not considered in other tying models. Intuitively, technological tying … technology on system profits. More importantly, the additional innovation, associated with technological tying, may benefit … consumers more than anticompetitive effects hurt them, suggesting that innovation efficiency should be an important …