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Strategic location choice under dynamic oligopolistic competition and spillovers

Colombo, Luca; Dawid, Herbert - 2013

This paper investigates firms' optimal location choices explicitly accounting for the role of inwards and outwards knowledge spillovers in a dynamic Cournot oligopoly with firms that are heterogeneous in their ability to carry out cost-reducing R&D. Firms can either locate in an industrial...

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Why powerful buyers finance suppliers' R&D

Bönte, Werner; Wiethaus, Lars - 2008

It is a common concern that pricing pressure by powerful buyers discourages suppliers' R&D investments. Employing a simple monopsonist - competitive upstream industry - framework, this paper qualifies this view in two respects. First, the monopsonist has an incentive to subsidize upstream R&D...

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Multiproduct multinationals and the quality of innovation

Bakhtiari, Sasan; Minniti, Antonio; Naghavi, Alireza - 2013

This research sheds light on the role of product scope on the innovation activity of multinational multi-product firms. We use patent citation data to break down innovation into two types by measuring the degree to which innovation performed by firms is fundamental and the extent to which the...

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Multiproduct multinationals and the quality of innovation

Sasan, Bakhtiari; Minniti, Antonio; Naghavi, Alireza - 2013

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Complementary patents and market structure

Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2008

Many high technology goods are based on standards that require access to several patents that are owned by different IP holders. We investigate the royalties chosen by IP holders under different market structures. Vertical integration of an IP holder and a downstream producer solves the double...

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Patent Pools and Diagnostic Testing

Van Overwalle, Geertrui - 2015

There is increasing concern that overlapping patents in the field of genetics will create a costly and legally complex situation known as a patent thicket, which, along with the associated issues of accumulating royalty payments, can act as a disincentive for innovation. One potential means of...

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Licensing Contracts : Control Rights, Options and Timing

Crama, Pascale - 2015

Research and development (R&D) collaborations, common in high-tech industries, are challenging to manage due to technical and market risks as well as incentive problems. We investigate how control rights, options, payment terms and timing allow the innovator to capture maximum value from its R&D...

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Complementary Patents and Market Structure

Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2014

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Harmonizing the Exclusionary Rights of Patents with Compulsory Licensing

Gwartney, Troy L. - 2009

's attempts to temper exclusive rights with compulsory licensing. Building upon the concurring opinion of Justice Kennedy in eBay … exclusivity the patent holder must license the patent to would be infringers. Because the outcome of any licensing agreement at … licensing industries. An underlying balance exists to any fundamental change in the patent system, but ultimately the Note …

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A Patentability Requirement for Sequential Innovation

O'Donoghue, Ted - 2014

This article investigates patent protection for a long sequence of innovations where firms repeatedly supersede each other. Incentives for R&D can be insufficient if successful firms earn market profit only until competitors achieve something better. To correct this problem, patents must provide...

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