We investigate the dimensions through which R&D spillovers are propagated across firms via cooperation through Research … technology spillovers and product market rivalry, and extend it to account for RJVs. Our main findings are that the adverse …

We investigate the dimensions through which R&D spillovers are propagated across firms via cooperation through Research … technology spillovers and product market rivalry, and extend it to account for RJVs. Our main findings are that the adverse …

Licensing in a patent thicket allows firms to either avoid or resolve hold-up. Firms' R&D incentives depend on whether … they license ex ante or ex post. We develop a model of a patent portfolio race, which allows for endogenous R&D efforts, to … likely to avoid patent portfolio races, since the threat of hold-up increases. On the other hand, more valuable technologies …