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Intellectual Property: When Is It the Best Incentive System?
Gallini, Nancy; Scotchmer, Suzanne - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 2001
breadth, and in Section IV we turn to the special problems that arise when innovation is cumulative. In Section V, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010537982
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Scarcity of Ideas and Options to Invest in R&D
Erkal, Nisvan; Scotchmer, Suzanne - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 2007
higher rewards where "ideas are scarce." We then explore how rewards should be structured when the value of an innovation … comes from its applications, and ideas for the innovation may be more or less scarce than ideas for the applications. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010537988
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Scarcity of Ideas and Options to Invest in R&D
Erkal, Nisvan; Scotchmer, Suzanne - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 2007
higher rewards where "ideas are scarce." We then explore how rewards should be structured when the value of an innovation … comes from its applications, and ideas for the innovation may be more or less scarce than ideas for the applications. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010538426
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Scarcity of Ideas and R&D Options: Use it, Lose it, or Bank it
Scotchmer, Suzanne - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 2009
We investigate optimal rewards in an R&D model where substitute ideas for innovation arrive to random recipients at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843455