On licensing sequential cost-reducing innovations

Joaquín Coleff and Camilo Rubbini

Economics Letters, 2025, vol. 246, issue C

Abstract: We present a simple model of an outside innovator licensing sequential innovations and propose a channel through which the prospect of future inventions affects the current number of licenses offered. Innovators may license their inventions to more firms than the one-shot licensing model predicts.

Keywords: Incentives to innovate; Sequential innovations; Patent licensing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L11 L24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2024.112043

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