Patent pools are cooperative agreements between several patent owners to bundle the sale fo their respective licences. In this paper the authors analyse their consequences on the speed of the sale of their respective licences. In this papier, they analyze their consequences on the speed of the...

Technological knowledge and organizational knowledge are distinguished in order to define economic competence formally. This definition is made operational in the simplest possible linear model of production. Productivity gains are shown to originate from changes in organizational capabilities...