Basic Research and Sequential Innovation.
The commercial value of basic knowledge depends on the arrival of follow-up developments mostly from outside the boundaries of the inventing firm. Private returns would depend on the extent the inventing firm internalizes these follow-up developments. Such internalization is less likely to occur as...
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Department of Economics (University of Oxford)
2006
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