On the social desirability of patents for sequential innovations in a vertically differentiated market

DOI10.1007/s00712-006-0231-5zbMath1121.91040MaRDI QIDQ885001

Piero Tedeschi, Luca Lambertini

Publication date: 7 June 2007

Published in: Journal of Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://amsacta.unibo.it/4933/1/376.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

innovation; product quality; patent height

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

91B26: Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models

Related Items

Price competition and quality differentiation with multiproduct firms, Patent litigation and cross licensing with cumulative innovation, Time-cost substitutability, earlycutting threat, and innovation timing, Low-quality leadership in a vertically differentiated duopoly with Cournot competition, PROCESS AND PRODUCT INNOVATION IN A VERTICALLY DIFFERENTIATED INDUSTRY

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