Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/121362 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper No. 510
Publisher: 
Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 15 - Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems (GESY), München
Abstract: 
The present paper reconsiders the inside innovators' licensing problem under incomplete information. Employing an optimal mechanism design approach, we show that, contrary to what is claimed in the literature, the optimal mechanism may prescribe fixed fees, royalty rates lower than the cost reduction, and even negative royalty rates.
Subjects: 
innovation
licensing
industrial organization
JEL: 
D21
D43
D44
D45
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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