realized successfully. In a first step, a theory-based typology of cross-business synergies is developed and two new types of …

Technological standards give rise to a complements problem that affects pricing and innovation incentives of technology … producers. In this paper I discuss how patent pools can be used to solve these problems and what incentives patent holders have … to form a patent pool. I offer some suggestions how competition authorities can foster the formation of welfare …

. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the US market's economic …Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation … importance, market dynamics, and the significant intertemporal fluctuations in firms' market shares and patents make this an …