Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Luigi Filippini
Author-X-Name-First: Luigi
Author-X-Name-Last: Filippini
Author-Email: luigi.filippini@unicatt.it
Author-Workplace-Name: DISCE, Università Cattolica
Title: Cournot competition among multiproduct firms:specialization through licensing
Abstract: In a duopoly where each firm produces substitute goods, we show that under process innovation,
specialization is the equilibrium attained with cross-licensing. Each firm produces only the good for
which it has an advantage. Patent pool extension confirms the results.
Length: 10 pages
Creation-Date: 2006-12 
Publication-Status: Published in International Journal of Business and Economics, 5(3), 2006, pp. 201-210. 
File-URL: http://www.unicatt.it/Istituti/TeoriaEconomica/Quaderni/Quaderno_42.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2003                                                                                                                             
Number: itemq0542
Classification-JEL: D45, O31
Keywords: cross-licensing, patent pool, specialization, process innovation
Handle: RePEc:ctc:serie6:itemq0542