This paper demonstrates that it can be optimal for innovators that also produce to license via a fixed fee rather than a royalty in a model of spatial price discrimination. This reversal of the typical result emerges when reduced willingness to pay by consumers limits the competitive location...

Proponents of the patent-holdup conjecture implicitly model competition among different technologies for inclusion in a standard as a static Bertrand pricing game without (1) any capacity restraints, (2) any product differentiation, and (3) any outside option for the inventors. On the basis of...

La 4e de couverture indique : "Le colloque du CUERPI qui s'est tenu à Grenoble le 28 novembre 2014, qui est l'objet du présent ouvrage, avait pour thème l'entreprise et la titularité des droits de propriété intellectuelle. Ce sujet de la titularité est particulièment important en...

The present study presents several requirements for stimulating the scientific and technological creation and innovation in the European research area.

The influence of political and social institutions on economic development is a major question developed by institutional economics. Naturally, the relationship between patent system and economic performance has been explored by economists and historians. In her book published in 2005, B. Zorina...