In knowledge economies, patent agencies are often viewed as a relevant instrument of an efficient innovation policy. This paper brings a new support to that idea. We claim that these agencies should play an increasing role in the regulation of the relation between private R&D labs and public...

In this work, we propose to look at the stock of knowledge that can be patented by private labs. We consider this stock as a common. It changes over time according to the number of patents and to a by-product of the University research activity. We first show that the competition between...

Nous proposons dans ce travail de considérer le stock de connaissances exploitables par des laboratoires privés à des fins de dépôts de brevets comme un commun dont l'évolution au cours du temps dépend à la fois du nombre de brevets déposés et d'un co-produit des activités de...