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Antitrust for High-Tech and Low : Regulation, Innovation, and Risk

Cass, Ronald A. - 2012

Severe limitations on antitrust enforcement officials’ knowledge and the potential impact of ill-advised investigations … single-firm conduct. Although it is common to depict antitrust enforcement as protecting market competition while other forms … of regulation are seen as intrusions (justifiable or not) into market operation, antitrust enforcement has …

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Innovating Big Tech Firms and Competition Policy : Favoring Dynamic Over Static Competition

Petit, Nicolas; Teece, David J. - 2021

This paper gives a fresh account of competition in the digital economy. Economic analysis in the field of industrial organization remains largely focused on a sophisticated version of the Schumpeter-Arrow debate, which is unresolved and largely irrelevant. We posit the need to look at...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238612

Antitrust for High-Tech and Low : Regulation, Innovation, and Risk

Cass, Ronald A. - 2012

Severe limitations on antitrust enforcement officials' knowledge and the potential impact of ill-advised investigations … single-firm conduct. Although it is common to depict antitrust enforcement as protecting market competition while other forms … of regulation are seen as intrusions (justifiable or not) into market operation, antitrust enforcement has …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099514

Illuminating Innovation : From Patent Racing to Patent War

Shaver, Lea - 2014

Patent law assumes that stronger protection promotes innovation, yet empirical evidence to test this “innovation hypothesis” is lacking. This Article argues that historical case studies hold unique promise to provide an empirical foundation for modern patent policy. Specifically, this...

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Innovation Competition, Unilateral Effects and Merger Policy

Petit, Nicolas - 2020

This paper looks at whether the standard unilateral effects model can be applied to non-price competition parameters such as innovation. This question arises because competition authorities are intervening in horizontal mergers that are found to give rise to a “significant impediment to...

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Government Choices in Innovation Funding (With Reference to Climate Change)

Sarnoff, Joshua D. - 2013

Huge amounts of money will soon be spent by governments and private entities to develop technology to reduce the costs of climate change mitigation and adaptation, and to deploy new energy and transportation infrastructures. Incredibly, we still lack any good idea of the best means of providing...

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Empirical Studies of Common Ownership-Effects on Product Markets & Innovation (Presentation Slides)

Schmalz, Martin C. - 2019

This slide deck reviews the extant empirical literature on common ownership concentration on firm behavior, innovation, and product market outcomes, as presented at the FTC hearings on common ownership and competition in December 2018. It is primarily based on this literature review:...

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Can Standard-Setting Lead to Exploitative Abuse? A Dissonant View on Patent Hold-Up, Royalty Stacking and the Meaning of FRAND

Geradin, Damien; Rato, Miguel - 2013

Standard-setting activities, which aim to achieve device interoperability and product compatibility, play a fundamental role in fostering innovation and competition in a variety of markets. Such activities, typically carried out by armies of engineers, would generally not be expected to...

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Invisible Engines : How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries

Evans, David S. - 2016

“Software platforms are the invisible engines that have created, touched, or transformed nearly every major industry for the past quarter century. They power everything from mobile phones and automobile navigation systems to search engines and web portals. They have been the source of enormous...

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Beyond BiDil : the Expanding Embrace of Race in Biomedical Research and Product Development

Kahn, Jonathan D. - 2012

In 2005 the FDA approved BiDil, the first drug ever to include a race-specific indication on its label - to treat heart failure in a “black” patient. In the aftermath of this controversial approval and subsequent marketing of the drug, many have wondered whether BiDil was an anomaly or a...

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