18 research outputs found
Detailed Data and Changes in Market Structure: The Move to Unmanned Gasoline Service Stations
Licensing Innovations with Exclusive Contracts
Licensing contracts, Exclusive territory clause, Fixed fee, D45,
The Effects of Post-Katrina Gasoline Price Regulations: The Contrast between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
Buyer Power, Transport Cost and Welfare
bilateral oligopoly, buyer power, countervailing power, transport costs, welfare, L1, L4, L8,
Cooperation in R&D: patenting, licensing and contracting
In this paper we review some of the literature on R&D collective arrangements using game theoretical concepts and considering various settings, involving either complete or incomplete contracts. Patent protection, licensing in various industry contexts as well as the role of various factors such as product differentiation, innovation magnitude and asymmetric information are considered. The relation of innovative activity to the intensity of competition is reconsidered and the benefit of various types of cooperative R&D-agreements in presence of externalities are reviewed. The last two sections are devoted to contracting issues