Anticommons and Optimal Patent Policy in a Model of Sequential Innovation
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- Gastón Llanes & Stefano Trento, 2009. "Anticommons and Optimal Patent Policy in a Model of Sequential Innovation," Harvard Business School Working Papers 09-148, Harvard Business School.
- Llanes, Gastón & Trento, Stefano, 2007. "Anticommons and optimal patent policy in a model of sequential innovation," UC3M Working papers. Economics we076838, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de EconomÃa.
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Keywords
anticommons; sequential innovation; patent policy; intellectual property rights; complementary monopoly; patent pools; returns to specialization;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
- O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
- L41 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
- D4 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design
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