Optimal combinations of upfront fees and royalties are considered for a cost-reducing
innovation in a Cournot oligopoly for both outside and incumbent innovators. It is shown that …

Fee versus royalty reconsidered Page 1 Games and Economic Behavior 53 (2005) 141–147
www.elsevier.com/locate/geb Fee versus royalty reconsidered Debapriya Sen Department …

Remanufacturing is the process by which used products are recovered and rebuilt to meet
like-new quality conditions. The quality level of the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) …

This paper studies the case where an outside patent holder licenses its vertical product
innovation to two Cournot competitors. It is found that, under a fixed‐fee contract, the patent …

We study the optimal technology licensing contracts with network effects and investigate the
welfare implications when the product innovator is an insider that acts as a Stackelberg …

This paper proposes a mixed Cournot duopoly model with private and partially public firms
to study an outside innovator's optimal licensing strategy. The innovator decides how and to …

Evidence reveals that there are more than 50% product innovation licensings applied within
industries. We study product innovation licensing (quality-enhancing licensing) in both …

We consider patent licensing under a simple model of asymmetric information, where an
outsider innovator of a cost-reducing innovation interacts with a monopolist, whose cost is …

ABSTRACT Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) is an important and effective energy
conservation mechanism, under which an energy service company (ESCO) provides an …

Motivated by the new practice of cross-licensing and price competition in smart products, as
well as the lack of cross-licensing literature, this article develops a theoretical framework to …