Standard-setting organizations (SSOs) are of growing importance as an institution for coordinating and facilitating the economic activities of intellectual property rights holders. SSOs thus foster economic benefits of standardization and of commercializing innovation. Market adoption of standards that call for standard-compliant products to use intellectual property rights (IPRs), however, rai...

This paper develops a model of technology transfer in an environment where Þrms in developing countries are unable to recover the costs of imitation and adaptation, because a competitive market structure in the South rules out any monopoly rents accruing to Southern Þrms. In such an environment, the technology transfer must be initiated by a Northern Þrm which risks its technology being copied ...

This study develops an R&D-based growth model with vertical and horizontal innovation to shed some light on the current debate on whether patent protection stimulates or sti‡es innovation. We analyze the e¤ects of patent protection in the form of blocking patents. We show that patent protection changes the direction of innovation by having asymmetric e¤ects on vertical innovation (i.e., quality...

abstract rapid changes in the science and technology and considering sport as a profession clues new challenge for sport policy-makers. in this situation, intellectual property and particularly human capital are among the most important organizational assets. the purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of intellectual capital on entrepreneurial opportunities recognition in sport industr...

We investigate how information goods are priced and diffused over links in a network. Buyers have idiosyncratic consumption values for information and, after acquiring it, can replicate it and resell copies to uninformed neighbors. A partition of the network captures the effects of network architecture and locations of information sellers on player profits and the structure of competing diffusi...

The explosive growth of the Internet has created critical new challenges to national and international intellectual property policies. Intellectual Property protection has become the most important issue in Cyberspace. When technological advances has outpaced the law, several problems arise which require an approach suitable to the digital age. Several international conventions have been enacte...