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Coopting 'decisive' technical advances / Morton I. Kamien, Israel Zang -- Efficiency of joint enterprises with internal bargaining / Luca Lambertini, Sougata Poddar, Dan Sasaki -- Equilibrium research joint ventures / Ping Lin -- Innovation, duplication, and the contract theory of patents / Vincenzo Denicolò, Luigi Alberto Franzoni -- Product and process innovation in differential games with managerial firms / Roberto Cellini, Luca Lambertini -- Delegation in an R&D game with spillovers / Michael Kopel, Christian Riegler -- Rent dissipation in R&D races / Ulrich Doraszelski -- On patent licensing / Sougata Poddar, Uday Bhanu Sinha -- Spillovers, stable R&D cooperations, and social welfare / Nils Hauenschild, Philip Sander -- Strategic R&D with uncertainty / Jeroen Hinloopen.

The book is a collection of original research papers by a number of industrial organization economists active in the field of Research and Development theory and policy. The contributions gathered here 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).

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