Coopting 'decisive' technical advances / Morton I. Kamien, Israel Zang -- Efficiency of joint enterprises with internal bargaining / Luca Lambertini, Sougata Poddar, Dan Sasaki -- Equilibrium research joint ventures / Ping Lin -- Innovation, duplication, and the contract theory of patents /...

A collection of original research papers by a number of industrial organization economists active in the field of Research and Development theory and policy. It covers patent policy, the effects of market structure and the internal organization of the firm on R&D incentives and technical...

We study an OLG economy where productivity growth comes from two alternative sources: process innovation and learning-by-doing. There is a trade-off between the two in so far as frequent technological updates reduce the scope for learning on existing technologies. A conflict is shown to arise...

We study an OLG economy where productivity growth comes from two alternative sources: process innovation and learning-by-doing. There is a trade-off between the two in so far as frequent technological updates reduce the scope for learning on existing technologies. A conflict is shown to arise...