Sequential Innovation, Patents, And Imitation

By James Bessen, Eric Maskin. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Patent rights and innovative activity: evidence from national and firm-level data (2007, background): “Licensing or cross-licensing negotiations are especially burdensome if patent rights are fragmented (i.e., if multiple rights holders own different components of a technology; Heller and Eisenberg, 1998; Bessen and Maskin, 2000; Shapiro, 2000).”
R&D and the Patent Premium (2008, neutral): “Bessen and Maskin (2000) also conjecture that patent protection offered little inducement for R&D or innovation in software in the 1980s and 1990s. Indeed, they claim that an apparent reversal in the growth in R&D intensity in software during the 1980s, just as firms were just beginning to patent so”
1 Moving Beyond Schumpeter: Management Research on the Determinants of Technological Innovation (2008, background): “Second, scholars such as Bessen and Maskin (2000) have challenged the idea that imitation of innovation always creates disincentives to invest in innovation.”
Patent Rights and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cross-Country Panels of Manufacturing Industries (2013, background): “Among advanced economies, stronger effective patent rights could stimulate the prospective invention of new products and processes, but, by limiting the usage of existing inventions, would reduce usage and follow-on invention (Green and Scotchmer, 1995; Bessen and Maskin, 2009).”
Innovation, Openness, and Platform Control (2018, background): “The most heavily cited papers in the sequential innovation literature—Green and Scotchmer (1995), Chang (1995), Bessen and Maskin (2009)—use only probabilistic innovation.”
Intellectual property protection and innovation: an inverted-U relationship (2010, background): “8This is in line with Bessen and Maskin’ (2009) finding.”
The paradox of openness: Appropriability, external search and collaboration (2014, background): “Some authors argue that the current focus on appropriability is directing firms away from discovery of new products and services towards legal games over ownership of patents (Bessen and Maskin, 2009).”
The protection of intellectual property rights and endogenous growth: Is stronger always better? (2007, positive): “Also related is a paper by Bessen and Maskin (2000), which shows that patent protection may reduce overall innovation and welfare if innovation is sequential and complementary.”
R&D Determinants: accounting for the differences between research and development (2014, background): “Some authors have warned against the potential damaging effects of higher appropriability on R&D (Bessen and Maskin, 2009; Kwon; 2012).”