Chapter 3 On Patent Licensing

Abstract

This chapter proposes a survey of the main results produced by the literature on licensing and some original insights, with a particular focus on globalization, North–South models of technology transfer, the issue of how the intellectual property rights influences international licensing, and asymmetric information.

Citation

Poddar, S. and Bhanu Sinha, U. (2008), "Chapter 3 On Patent Licensing", Cellini, R. and Lambertini, L. (Ed.) The Economics of Innovation (Contributions to Economic Analysis, Vol. 286), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 33-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0573-8555(08)00203-4