| Tekijä: | Lieberman, M. B. |
| Otsikko: | Patents, learning by doing, and market structure in the chemical processing industries. |
| Lehti: | International Journal of Industrial Organization
1987 : SEP, VOL. 5:3, p. 257-276 |
| Asiasana: | PATENTS MARKET STRUCTURE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | The use of count data models, based on a sample of 24 chemical products, to evaluate firms propensity to patent and the link between patented process innovations and output prices. It is shown that process patenting was largely an outgrowth of learning by doing. Output price reductions were linked to learning by doing, and weakly to the patenting rate. In appropriating the value of patented process innovations the author opines that producer firms appear to have been more successful than non-producers. Six Tables and an equation are given. The study reviews patenting behaviour, cost reduction, definition of variables and the impact of patents on industry prices. |
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