pt.I. Patents. ch.1. Rent dissipation in R&D races / Ulrich Doraszelski -- ch.2. Innovation, duplication, and the contract theory of patents / Vincenzo Denicol and Luigi Alberto Franzoni -- ch.3. On patent licensing / Sougata Poddar and Uday Bhanu Sinha -- pt.II. Information and cost sharing. ch.4. Spillovers, stable R&D cooperations and social welfare / Nils Hauenschild and Philip Sander -- ch.5. Strategic R&D with uncertainty / Jeroen Hinloopen -- ch.6. Coopting "decisive" technical advances / Morton I. Kamien and Israel Zang -- ch.7. Efficiency of joint enterprises with internal bargaining / Luca Lambertini, Sougata Poddar and Dan Sasaki -- ch.8. Equilibrium research joint ventures / Ping Lin -- pt.III. Delegation and R&D incentives. ch.9. Product in process innovation in differential games with managerial firms / Roberto Cellini and Luca Lambertini -- ch.10. Delegation in an R&D game with spillovers / Michael Kopel and Christian Riegler.
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"This book is a collection of original research papers by a number of industrial organization economists active in the field of Research & Development theory and policy. The contributors gathered her cover several relevant topics in this area: namely patent policy, the effects of market structure and the internal organization of the firm on R&D incentives and technical progress, R&D cooperation and technological spillovers, innovation and the entry process. Comprehensive views of the acquired knowledge of these topics are presented together with new insights on these issues, including policy insights wherever appropriate. The book is intended for professional researchers in industrial organization, antitrust officers, plus graduate students (at both Master and PhD level)."--BOOK JACKET.