Towards a data monopoly?

Towards a data monopoly?

It is a disturbing experience for an academic scientist to sit through a press conference given by any biotechnology company which specialises in platform technologies. To be told that yeast can be sequenced in 6 hours or the bacterium of your choice in only 2, makes you feel as if you had to adjust to the news that somebody had jogged up Mount Everest in the same time it normally takes to run ...

International Trade Policy towards Monopoly and Oligopoly

This paper highlights the importance of product differentiation and endogenous r&d in determining the optimal r&d policy, in a model where investment in cost reducing r&d is committed before firms compete in a differentiated-goods third-country export market. R&D is always taxed in oligopolies for high degrees of product differentiation. For lower degrees of product differentiation the duopoly ...

Patent=monopoly: a legal fiction

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Toward a Monopoly Botnet Market

Zhen Li1 and Qi Liao2 1Department of Economics and Management, Albion College, Albion, Michigan, USA 2Department of Computer Science, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, USA ABSTRACT Economics play an increasingly important role in fighting cyber crimes. While the arms race against botnet problems has achieved limited success, we propose an approach attacking botnets through ...

A Markovian Exploration of Monopoly