考量專利授權下之研發競爭

Abstract

We discuss how the patent licensing may impact the R&D activities of duopoly firms with different production costs. We found that: with the possibility of patent licensing, the more efficient firms will spend more in R&D, and the less efficient one will spend less, when it is more difficult to innovate. As a result, the patent licensing widens the difference in firms’ production costs. Besides, the incentive to innovate for either firm decreases under patent licensing as the original gap between costs increases. Moreover, when comparing to the R&D cooperation, both firms will be engaged in more R&D activities under patent licensing, when the difference between costs is relative small.

Date of Award	2009
Original language	Chinese (Traditional)
Supervisor	Ming-Hung Weng (Supervisor)