increase innovation sharing are available to limit the development of thickets. While the academic literature is still debating … the link between patents and innovation, patents have been show to have some positive effects, including increased venture …

cumulative innovation. This paper studies the effects of strategic patenting on Ramp;D, patenting and market value in the … find evidence that both strategic patenting and Ramp;D spillovers strongly affect innovation and market value of software …

differentiation model, we theoretically investigate how piracy influences the software outsourcing decision. We find that when piracy … result, an increase in piracy leads to more outsourcing. However, when piracy is high, it becomes too expensive for the … platform provider to subsidize the software provider, resulting in a decrease in outsourcing. Moreover, when software variety …

Software innovation is transforming the U.S. economy. Yet our understanding of how patents and patent transactions … support this innovation is limited by a lack of public information about patent licenses and sales. Claims about the patent … licenses as a tax on innovation tend not to be grounded in empirical evidence. This Article brings much–needed data to the …