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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w18931 |
来源ID | Working Paper 18931 |
A Tale of Two Standards: Patent Pools and Innovation in the Optical Disk Drive Industry | |
Kenneth Flamm | |
发表日期 | 2013-03-28 |
出版年 | 2013 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | The impact of patent pools on the rate and direction of technological change is an open question in both theoretical and empirical studies. Economic theory makes no unequivocal prediction. By contrast, empirical studies of patent pools, to date, have largely concluded that patent pools have been associated with reduced rates of technical innovation in the industries studied. This study differs from previous empirical studies of patent pools by focusing primarily on direct measures of innovation in product markets, rather than on indirect correlates of innovation (like patents), and by exploiting variation over time in how pools were organized in the same technology area. The paper analyzes the economic history of two successive sets of patent pools organized in substantially the same technological area -- the use of optical discs in data storage peripherals connected to computer systems. These two patent pool episodes differed significantly in their organizational and institutional details. These differences appear to have coincided with very different effects on the structure of product markets, and the rate of technical innovation in optical disc products. The analysis concludes that different approaches to pool organization and licensing policies implemented in these two patent pool examples were associated with very different outcomes. The clear implication is that organizational details matter: no single conclusion is likely to fit all cases. As theory seems to predict, the empirical effects of patent pools on innovation are likely to be ambiguous, dependent on the historical and institutional particulars of the pool and the industry it affects. |
主题 | Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w18931 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576606 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Kenneth Flamm. A Tale of Two Standards: Patent Pools and Innovation in the Optical Disk Drive Industry. 2013. |
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