institutions like greater economic freedom aided technology licensing, while others like strong patent protection were not found to …The paper provides firm-level insights into the drivers of foreign technology licensing from the perspective of the … and those situated in the nations’ main business city. Greater literacy facilitated foreign technology licensing, while …

-post welfare under weak patent protection. However, the results may be different for licensing contract with per-unit output …This paper investigates the effect of different patent regimes on R&D investment and social welfare in a duopoly market … with uncertain R&D process. We find that strong patent protection increases R&D investment of at least one firm but whether …

We argue that mergers among market laggards (new entrants or innovation challengers) should be treated differently than …. This is more likely to happen when entry (or innovation) costs are relatively high, so that entry (or innovation) is … among laggards may lead to more entry (or innovation). Such a merger will also be more likely to benefit consumers when the …

that despite sometimes controversial licensing practices the patent system has broadly achieved what is intended. The …Few topics in the life sciences today provoke as much debate as the availability of patent protection on "genetic … inventions". Some hold that protection is essential to encourage innovation and development of new products. Others argue that …