On the Number of Licenses with Signalling

We analyse a two-period licensing game in which a non-producing upstream patent holder licenses an innovation that lasts for two periods to either one or two downstream users. Licensing is made through a payment based on a two-part tariff, namely a fixed fee plus a royalty per output unit. Regarding...

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Autores: Antelo Suárez, Manel; Rodríguez Sampayo, Antonio
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
Repositorio:Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Lenguaje:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:minerva.usc.gal:10347/38490
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10347/38490
Nivel de acceso:Acceso abierto
Palabra clave:530602 Innovación tecnológica
530603 Transferencia de tecnología
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description We analyse a two-period licensing game in which a non-producing upstream patent holder licenses an innovation that lasts for two periods to either one or two downstream users. Licensing is made through a payment based on a two-part tariff, namely a fixed fee plus a royalty per output unit. Regarding the innovation value when commercialized by each user (high or low), we compare a symmetric information context where such value is publicly known with a situation in which users have private information about the value, but with their period-1 output signalling that value. We find that the patent holder is more likely to prefer to grant two licenses under signalling than under symmetric information, which highlights the benefits of resorting to market competition between users to reduce the amount of informational rents.
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spelling On the Number of Licenses with Signalling Antelo Suárez, Manel Rodríguez Sampayo, Antonio 530602 Innovación tecnológica 530603 Transferencia de tecnología We analyse a two-period licensing game in which a non-producing upstream patent holder licenses an innovation that lasts for two periods to either one or two downstream users. Licensing is made through a payment based on a two-part tariff, namely a fixed fee plus a royalty per output unit. Regarding the innovation value when commercialized by each user (high or low), we compare a symmetric information context where such value is publicly known with a situation in which users have private information about the value, but with their period-1 output signalling that value. We find that the patent holder is more likely to prefer to grant two licenses under signalling than under symmetric information, which highlights the benefits of resorting to market competition between users to reduce the amount of informational rents. John Wiley and Sons https://hdl.handle.net/10347/38490
spellingShingle On the Number of Licenses with Signalling
Antelo Suárez, Manel
530602 Innovación tecnológica
530603 Transferencia de tecnología
title On the Number of Licenses with Signalling
title_full On the Number of Licenses with Signalling
title_fullStr On the Number of Licenses with Signalling
title_full_unstemmed On the Number of Licenses with Signalling
title_short On the Number of Licenses with Signalling
title_sort On the Number of Licenses with Signalling
topic 530602 Innovación tecnológica
530603 Transferencia de tecnología
topic_facet 530602 Innovación tecnológica
530603 Transferencia de tecnología
url https://hdl.handle.net/10347/38490