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Standardization and expectations

Langenberg, Tobias - 2006

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Inter-technology versus intra-technology competition in network markets

Langenberg, Tobias - In: EURAS yearbook of standardization 5 (2005), pp. 21-46

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Inter-technology versus intra-technology competition in network markets

Langenberg, Tobias - In: Homo oeconomicus 22 (2005) 1, pp. 21-46

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Standardization and Expectations

Langenberg, Tobias (contributor) - 2006

Over the last decades, technological progress has brought about a multitude of standardization problems. For instance, compatibility standards ensure the interoperability of goods, which is of decisive importance when users face positive externalities in consumption. Consumers' expectations are...

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Do shorter product cycles induce patent thickets?

Beschorner, Patrick Frank Ernst (contributor) - 2008

model provides an argument that shorter product cycles can induce firms to file more patent applications. The firms may be … trapped in a prisoners' dilemma where all firms would jointly prefer to patent less and to not have a patent thicket. If firms … successful, this may create a patent thicket. The transition into a situation where firms start patenting many ideas instead of …