Rewarding sequential innovators: Prizes, patents, and buyouts

Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1041-1068

  Hopenhayn, Hugo ^a   Llobet, Gerard ^b   Mitchell, Matthew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CEMFI   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCENTIVE; INNOVATION; MONOPOLY; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; PRICE DYNAMICS; PROPERTY RIGHTS;

EID: 33846466073     PISSN: 00223808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/510562     Document Type: Article

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