On the Licensing of Innovations under Strategic Delegation
This paper uses a three-stage licensing-delegation-quantity game to study the licensing of a cost-reducing innovation by a patent-holding firm to its competitor. It is shown that licensing is less likely to occur under strategic delegation compared to no delegation.
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| Length: | 19 pgs. |
| Date of creation: | 23 Dec 2004 |
| Date of revision: | 23 Dec 2004 |
| Publication status: | Published in Economics Bulletin 2004 |
| Handle: | RePEc:umc:wpaper:0416 |
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- Chaim Fershtman & Kenneth L Judd, 1984.
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