substitute for incomplete (legal) protection of innovation effort. They may help firms settle the resulting fairness issue, and …, through successful innovation, competitors might gain an advantage. This is the case if the opposite market side has …

provides prescriptions for enhancing industry entry through private ordering, federal innovation policy, and antitrust …” commercialization. However, when focusing on downstream industry segments that bring patented technologies to market—“innovation” in an …, voluntary divestures, and antitrust enforcement. While such forces are significant, the formidable strength of concentration …

. -- Antitrust ; Innovation ; research and development agreements ; block exemption ; oligopoly experiments ; meta-study … substitute for incomplete (legal) protection of innovation effort. They may help firms settle the resulting fairness issue, and …, through successful innovation, competitors might gain an advantage. This is the case if the opposite market side has …

substitute for incomplete (legal) protection of innovation effort. They may help firms settle the resulting fairness issue, and …, through successful innovation, competitors might gain an advantage. This is the case if the opposite market side has …

innovation policy in the context of EU economic law (competition policy, intellectual property law, sector regulation). As such … law that moves beyond apparent conflicts and assumes innovation as the starting point. Taking this as the foundation, the … analytical grid to be used to identify ways in which economic law impacts innovation, and second an applied component that …

their innovation activities in response to the potential entry of direct competitors. We then examine a legal ruling that … subjected these agreements to antitrust litigation, thereby reducing the incentive to enter them. After the ruling, incumbent … firms increased their net innovation activities in response to competitive entry. These effects center on firms with …

or substitutes, and on incentives for investment and (sequential) innovation. …

. It follows that an antitrust authority ignoring existing PPOs when evaluating merger proposals (which reflects the …

? (iii) What are implications for antitrust policy? We conclude from our analysis that in the already highly horizontally …