role of the effect of pooling on downstream innovation. The focus of this paper is on downstream product development and … tacit knowledge and incomplete patents. -- Patent Pools ; Research and Development ; Innovation ; Tacit Knowledge …

R&D collaboration facilitates pooling of complementary skills, learning from the partner as well as sharing risks and … costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … terms of gains for innovation performance, but also show that collaboration has decreasing and even negative returns on …

This papers analyses how horizontal mergers affect innovation activities of the merged entity and its non … predicts that a merger is more likely to be profitable in an innovation intensive industry. For a high degree of firm … heterogeneity, a merger reduces innovation of both the merged entity and non-merging competitors in an industry with high R …

We study the effect of stronger patent protection on innovation activities of firms and firm-product level markups …

innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a potential crowding out of inventive efforts could increase the cost of mitigating …. However, we do not find negative effects on the number of ongoing R&D projects, investments in innovation-related fixed assets … or on the outcome of innovation projects. Likewise, for firms with subsidy-backed environmental innovations no crowding …

contrast, RJVs among non-competitors are efficiency enhancing. -- Research Joint Ventures ; Innovation ; Collusion ; NCRA …