The Division of Ownership in New Ventures

The current study investigates a tripartite incentive contract between an innovator supplying an intellectual asset, a professional assigned to productive tasks, and a consulting firm specializing in matching ideas and professionalskills. A rather simple pure tripartite partnership implements the consultant's expected profit maximum and maximizes the project's expected surplus. The liquidity-constrained professional is compensated by receiving a share of one half in the new venture. The consultant's and the innovator'sshares reflect the relative value of search. However, the consultant's optimal search effort to find an appropriate production partner is inefficiently low.

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Year of publication:	2006-06-01
Authors:	Demougin, Dominique ; Fabel, Oliver
Institutions:	Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin>
Subject:	Eigentum \| estate \| Eigentümer \| Partnerschaft

1. Introduction
2. The model
2.1 The production and information structure
2.2 The innovator's outside option
2.3 The timing of the tripartite game
3. The optimal tripartite contract
4. Summary and conclusions
5. References

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