Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/32198 
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Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods No. 2009,6
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
Abstract: 
The imperfect appropriability of revenues from innovation affects the incentives of firms to invest, and to disclose information about their innovative productivity. It creates a free-rider effect in the competition for the innovation that countervails the familiar business-stealing effect. Moreover, it affects the disclosure incentives such that full disclosure emerges for extreme revenue spillovers (e.g., full protection and no protection of intellectual property), but either partial disclosure or full concealment emerges for intermediate spillovers. I analyze the implications of imperfect appropriability and strategic disclosure for the firms.profits and the probability of innovation.
Subjects: 
externality
free-rider effect
information disclosure
Innovation
R&D
competition
spillovers
strategic substitutes
JEL: 
D82
D83
L23
O31
O32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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