integration, self-preferencing, killer acquisitions, and agglomeration. Developments in and relevance to ASEAN countries are …

This paper investigates short-term effects of big tech start-up acquisitions on innovation empirically. Innovation … explore the repercussions of big tech start-up acquisitions on innovation by examining their effects on venture capital (VC … (IPOs) and other mergers and acquisitions (M&As), we found an average increase of 30.7% in the total amount of VC funding …

Since 2010, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft (GAFAM) have acquired more than 400 companies. Competition … authorities did not scrutinize most of these transactions and blocked none. This raised concerns that GAFAM acquisitions target … empirically study the competitive effects of big tech acquisitions on competitors in a relevant online market. We identify …

normative assessment. R&D agreements have a much smaller effect on later competition in the product market if they serve as a … substitute for incomplete (legal) protection of innovation effort. They may help firms settle the resulting fairness issue, and …, through successful innovation, competitors might gain an advantage. This is the case if the opposite market side has …

innovation policy in the context of EU economic law (competition policy, intellectual property law, sector regulation). As such … law that moves beyond apparent conflicts and assumes innovation as the starting point. Taking this as the foundation, the … analytical grid to be used to identify ways in which economic law impacts innovation, and second an applied component that …

innovation. We exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the 'revealed preference' of developers - to infer the underlying …

mergers. Theoretical background is the still open question how negative effects of mergers on innovation should be taken into … account in merger policy. Although we can show in our study that in one third of all challenged mergers also innovation …In this empirical study all mergers that have been challenged by the U.S. antitrust agencies FTC and DOJ between 1995 …

We introduce a racing model with multiple product generations, product innovation, spin-outs, and licensing. Industry … conditions and innovation characteristics affect who wins the race and who markets the resulting product. Small firms market …

normative assessment. R&D agreements have a much smaller effect on later competition in the product market if they serve as a … substitute for incomplete (legal) protection of innovation effort. They may help firms settle the resulting fairness issue, and …, through successful innovation, competitors might gain an advantage. This is the case if the opposite market side has …

the identity of targets and acquirers (who), the timing of acquisitions along the R&D process (when), and which type of R …