Optimal Licensing of Agricultural Patents: Fees versus Royalties
We develop a theoretical model of optimal licensing schemes for quality-improving innovations. We consider an oligopolistic market where two downstream firms compete in price and the upstream innovator holds a technology that may create differentiation between the products. Our results show that non...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Western Agricultural Economics Association
2015-01-01
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Series: | Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics |
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Online Access: | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/197374 |