model that helps understand how licensing activity should be organized within large corporations. More specifically, we … compare decentralization—where the business unit using the technology makes licensing decisions—to centralized licensing. The … business unit has superior information about licensing opportunities but may not have the appropriate incentives because its …

We explore potential methods for assessing whether licensing terms for intellectual property declared essential within … certain patent pool arrangements and which has been proposed in a pending FRAND antitrust suit. We then turn to two economic …

compete with them. Such a strategy is difficult to explain within traditional models of licensing. This paper extends the … literature on licensing by relaxing the assumption of a monopolist technology holder. We develop a model with many technological … trajectories for the production of a differentiated good. We find that competition in the market for technology induces licensing …

This paper is a study of licensing in a patent thicket. In a patent thicket licensing allows firms to avoid hold-up. It …. Building on a model of a patent portfolio race, firms' choice between these types of licensing contracts is modelled. We find … results we argue that licensing raises welfare in the patent thicket. …

Licensing in a patent thicket allows firms to either avoid or resolve hold-up. Firms’ R&D incentives depend on whether … they license ex ante or ex post. We develop a model of a patent portfolio race, which allows for endogenous R&D efforts, to … study firms’ choice between ex ante and ex post licensing. The model shows that firms’ relationships in product markets and …

special relevance for the analysis of competition in CDMA and WCDMA technology licensing, where some IP holders are not …

rates and reduce output as compared to non-integration. Horizontal integration of IP holders (or a patent pool) solves the …

We study the impact of incentive pay, local development objectives and government constraints on university licensing … performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new survey information together … pay than public ones, but ownership does not affect licensing performance conditional on the use of incentive pay …