Technology leaders protecting a technological headstart with a patent are provided with a powerful legal measure to restrict market entry. We analyze the impact of knowledge spillover on the decision to patent and the ...
In this paper we empirically investigate the theoretical results obtained in Zaby (2009). From the theoretical model, which introduces the decision to patent into a setting with horizontally differentiated products we ...
This paper empirically investigates a firm’s propensity to patent. It thereby
builds on a theoretical model on a firms’ patenting decision in a market with
vertically differentiated products. We deduce and empirically ...
