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Patents, Licensing, And Market Structure In The Chemical Industry

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Ashish Arora (carnegie mellon university)

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The strategies of rent appropriation and market structure are inter- dependent. How firms use patents depends upon industry structure, and in turn, affects industry structure. In the early part of the history of the chemical industry, market leaders combined patents and secrecy to deter entry. Patents were also used to within cartels to organize technology licensing. The role of patents changed in the less concentrated post war markets. In bulk organic chemicals and petrochemicals, even chemical producers use licensing as an important means of generating revenue from process innovations. The increased importance of technology licensing is closely related to the emergence of a class of specialized process design and engineering firms that have played an important role in the development and diffusion of process innovations. In so doing, they have helped lower entry barriers and increase competition in the industry.

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Keywords: Patents; Licensing; Market Structure; Chemicals;

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L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
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N60 - Economic History - - Manufacturing and Construction - - - General, International, or Comparative

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  1. Arora, Ashish & Fosfuri, Andrea, 1999. "Licensing the Market for Technology," CEPR Discussion Papers 2284, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  2. Andrea Fosfuri, 2004. "The Licensing Dilemma: Understanding The Determinants Of The Rate Of Licensing," Business Economics Working Papers wb041507, Universidad Carlos III, Departamento de Economía de la Empresa. [Downloadable!]
  3. Wesley M Cohen & Richard R Nelson & John P Walsh, 2003. "Protecting Their Intellectual Assets: Appropriability Conditions and Why U.S. Manufacturing Firms Patent (Or Not)," Levine's Working Paper Archive 618897000000000624, David K. Levine. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Palomeras, Neus, 2003. "Sleeping patents: any reason to wake up?," IESE Research Papers D/506, IESE Business School. [Downloadable!]
  5. Cugno Franco & Ottoz Elisabetta, 2007. "Patent-secret mix in complex product firms," Department of Economics Working Papers 200707, University of Turin. [Downloadable!]
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  6. Paul H. Jensen & Elizabeth Webster, 2006. "Managing Knowledge Flows through Appropriation and Learning Strategies," Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series wp2006n06, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne. [Downloadable!]
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  9. Fabrizio Cesaroni & Paola Giuri, 2005. "Intellectual Property Rights and Market Dynamics," LEM Papers Series 2005/10, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy. [Downloadable!]
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  11. Albert N. Link & John T. Scott, 2002. "Explaining Observed Licensing Agreements: Toward a Broader Understanding of Technology Flows," Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 11(3), pages 211-231, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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