Effective incomplete contracts and milestones in market-distant R&D collaboration

Research Policy

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 346-357

  Kloyer, Martin ^a   Scholderer, Joachim ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Incentives; Incomplete contracts; Milestone dependent payments; Moral hazard; Patent ownership; R D collaboration

Indexed keywords

INCENTIVES; INCOMPLETE CONTRACTS; MILESTONE-DEPENDENT PAYMENTS; MORAL HAZARD; PATENT OWNERSHIP;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

CONTRACTS;

EID: 84855965638     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2011.11.003     Document Type: Article

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