interim, firms that had achieved dominant positions through innovation often embraced new technologies slowly, sometimes …

monopoly "leveraging" makes sense as an anti-competitive act. Three cases are discussed and contrasted: The IBM case of the …

In the modern theory of growth, monopoly plays a crucial role both as a cause and an effect of innovation. Innovative …. This theme of monopoly runs throughout the theory of growth, international trade, and industrial organization. We argue … that monopoly is neither needed for, nor a necessary consequence of innovation. In particular, intellectual property is not …

Against Intellectual Monopoly by Boldrin and Levine (“B&L”) makes the case that intellectual property does not promote … innovation or lead to greater economic growth, by highlighting numerous examples from industries in which innovation increased … without patent or copyright protection. The authors also argue that companies only try to obtain an intellectual monopoly …