Sequential innovation, patents, and imitation /

How could such industries as software, semiconductors, and computers have been so innovative despite historically weak patent protection? We argue that if innovation is both sequential and complementary--as it certainly has been in those industries--competition can increase firms' future profit...

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Main Author: Bessen, James, 1958-
Corporate Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics
Other Authors: Maskin, Eric
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Dept. of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [2000]
Series:Working paper (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics) ; no. 00-01
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Call Number: HB31.M415 no.00-01