Week 4 & 5 Flashcards
Tigth regime
technology is relatively easy to protect
Weak regime
Technology is almost impossible to protect
Pre-paradigmatic phase
imitation is possible, followers have chances to have their products become industry standards
Paradigmatic phase
access to complementary assets is critical
Complementary assets
Generic, specialized, co-specialized
General Purpose Technologies
Economy wide, capable of ongoing technical improvement and enable complementary innovations
Enabling technologies
capable of ongoing technical improvement and enable complemenatary innovations but NOT economy wide
IP models
Formal: Patents, trademarks, copyright
Informal: trade secrets, lead times, defensive publication
Alternative IP models
Patent pools, patent commons, patent non assertion pledge (open patenting)
Stategic patenting
Blocking
Patent fences
Signaling
Bottleneck
One specialized asset needed for commercialization
Types of complementarity
Hicksian, Edgeworth, Hirshleifer, Cournot, Technological, Innovational
Hicksian
decrease in price of one factor leads to increase in production quantity of the other
Edgeworth
X an Y are edgeworth complement if the utility of consuming them together is higher than in isolation
Hirshleifer
Based on innovation, prices will change