innovation as part of its broader ongoing hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century. The hearings … focused on the role of IP protection in promoting innovation, as well as the foundational question of whether the FTC (and the … government more broadly) should play a role in advancing or supporting innovation and, if so, what role. The Commission is …

” commercialization. However, when focusing on downstream industry segments that bring patented technologies to market—“innovation” in an … concentration ultimately harms innovation, efficiency, consumer welfare, and democratic representation. It argues that patent law … provides prescriptions for enhancing industry entry through private ordering, federal innovation policy, and antitrust …

We construct a competitive model of innovation and growth under constant returns to scale. Previous models of growth … under constant returns cannot model technological innovation. Current models of endogenous innovation rely on the interplay … innovation and sees the nonrivalrous nature of ideas as a natural conduit to increasing returns. The results here challenge the …

harmful for innovation and if so, whether compulsory licensing can provide an effective remedy. The consent decree settled an … to license all its existing patents royalty-free. The compulsory licensing increased follow-on innovation building on … Bell patents by 17%. This effect is driven mainly by young and small companies. Yet, innovation increased only outside the …

How does antitrust enforcement against patent-based monopolies affect innovation? I address this question by … ordered to license all its copier-technology patents in the US and abroad. I show that this promoted innovation by other firms … available for licensing. This positive effect is driven by increased innovation by Japanese competitors. They started developing …

concentration upon innovation, focusing on robust findings, questions of interpretation, and the identification of major gaps. We … also consider the more modest literature that considers the effect on innovation of firm characteristics other than size …

intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …

harmful for innovation and if so, whether compulsory licensing can provide an effective remedy. The consent decree settled an … to license all its existing patents royalty-free. The compulsory licensing increased follow-on innovation building on … Bell patents by 17%. This effect is driven mainly by young and small companies. Yet, innovation increased only outside the …

How does antitrust enforcement against patent-based monopolies affect innovation? I address this question by … ordered to license all its copier-technology patents in the US and abroad. I show that this promoted innovation by other firms … available for licensing. This positive effect is driven by increased innovation by Japanese competitors. They started developing …

harmful for innovation and if so, whether compulsory licensing can provide an effective remedy. The consent decree settled an … to license all its existing patents royalty-free. The compulsory licensing increased follow-on innovation building on … Bell patents by 17%. This effect is driven mainly by young and small companies. Yet, innovation increased only outside the …