[eng] Regulation and deregulation of the telecommunication industry: from the american and british experiences to a possible evolution in France. . This paper focuses on the regulation and deregulation experiences in the american and british telecommunication industry, in relation to the...

[fre] L'objet de cet article est d'analyser les effets de la libéralisation du transport aérien en Europe. Chaque compagnie aérienne a un réseau de liaisons directes et indirectes connectant différents aéroports nationaux et internationaux à partir d'un aéroport central qu'elle domine...

The Relations Between Science and Technology: what Implications for Public Policy? This article proposes an analysis of the science-technology interactions. The first part is historical and focuses on the transformations that resulted from the passage of a prescriptive knowledge (techniques) to...

This paper explores a licensor's choice between charging a per-unit royalty or a …fixed fee when her innovation is covered by a weak patent, i.e. a patent that is likely to be invali- dated by a court if challenged. Using a general model where the nature of competition is not speci…ed, we show...

This paper presents some works realized under the sponsorship of the CNRS research program: The Economics of innovation: trends and issues [1997-2002]. Four topics are emphasized: The macroeconomic and microeconomic representations of the innovative process and the links between innovation,...

In this paper we examine the implications of uncertainty over patent validity on patentholders' licensing strategies. Two licensing mechanisms are examined: per-unit royalty and up-front fee.We provide conditions under which uncertain patents are licensed in order to avoid patent litigation. It...

In this paper, we revisit the issue of licensing ‘weak' patents under the shadow of litigation. Departing from the seminal paper by Farrell and Shapiro [2008], we consider innovations of any size and not only ‘small' innovations, and we allow the number of licensees to be less than the...