decision itself. This paper discusses the likely impact of these patents on innovation. It first reviews the facts about … system and innovation. It concludes by finding some consensus in the literature about the problems associated with this …

The appropriability of innovation depends not only on the instruments available to an innovator to protect private … pursue a narrow or broad customer segment, or whether to commercialize a “minimal viable product” version of their innovation …

" about future performance and standard measures of corporate innovation. We begin by developing a career concern model where … probability of failure, are more likely to pursue innovation, and that this effect is larger in more competitive industries. We …

existing sales from future challengers. In this fundamental way, competition promotes innovation. We apply this basic insight … internalizes business-stealing effects arising from their parallel innovation efforts and thus tends to depress innovation … of R&D, may offset the adverse effect of a merger on innovation. We describe the possible effects of a merger on …