License auctions with royalty contracts for (winners and) losers

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 91-106

  Giebe, Thomas ^a   Wolfstetter, Elmar ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auctions; Innovation; Licensing; Mechanism design; Patents; R D; Royalty

Indexed keywords

EID: 41649097166     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2007.08.010     Document Type: Article

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