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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 …
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This paper investigates the patent licensing networks formed by competing firms. Assuming that licensing agreements can …
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discuss the impact of the investment needed to replicate the innovation and the size of the potential market. Our results …
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Digital platforms are technology intensive and often require access to intellectual property rights. As those rights are often owned by competing platforms, we observe cross-licensing contracts between them. Cross-licensing facilitates the sharing of technologies, leading to less duplication of...
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We present a framework to evaluate the impact of digital music distribution. We set up a representative model that enables the comparative static analysis. We then interpret two empirical observations about the music industry, the sales decline and the price constancy, and fit the model to these...
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model that combines aspects of non-cooperative R&D with the theory of differentiated oligopolies: In stage one, firms …
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