As scientists are motivated by readership rather than by royalties, one might doubt that academic copyright is required … open access regime by abolishing academic copyright is currently intensively being discussed. We contribute to this …

Modern software development involves collaborative efforts and re-use of existing software packages and libraries, to … reduce the cost of developing new software. However, package dependencies expose developers to the risk of contagion from … bugs or other vulnerabilities. We study the formation of dependency networks among software packages and libraries, guided …

best technologies, or only intermediate technologies. No other equilibria can exist. -- Cournot duopoly ; strategic …

and price competition in a duopoly with differentiated products. By allowing for partially privatizing a state …

In a context of product innovation, we study two-part tariff licensing between a patentee and a potential rival which …

We consider a firm A initially owning a software platform (e.g. operating system) and an application for this platform … against expropriation of rents. The different pieces of software are considered as assets in the sense of the property rights … firms invest in physical (and not in human) capital and that there is non-rivalry in consumption for software. -- Platforms …

given duopoly game as well as their intention to cooperate or not with their rival. The cooperation and timing formation … check for the existence of a subgame perfect Nash equilibrium (in pure strategies) of such a cooperation-timing duopoly game …. Two main results on the emergence of cooperation are provided. If players' actions in the symmetric duopoly game are …