caa a22 4500 467994048 CHVBK 20180323112553.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19900901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00389527 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00389527 To patent or to publish [Elektronische Daten] [Daniel Levi-Mazloum, Thomas von Ungern-Sternberg] Most theoretical models of R&D assume that the successful innovator will patent his invention. In practice this is not the case. Innovators often find it preferable to publish their inventions to preclude patenting by somebody else, without actually going to the effort of obtaining a patent themselves. The purpose of this paper is to study the incentives to proceed in this fashion. The paper is of interest because it sheds some light on the kinds of biases one may find in data on patenting activity. It also raises the interesting question of how economists should go about defining at what point information can be said to be "in the public domain.” Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 Levi-Mazloum Daniel Battm. des facultés des sc. hum. 1, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015, Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland aut von Ungern-Sternberg Thomas Battm. des facultés des sc. hum. 1, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015, Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland aut Small Business Economics Kluwer Academic Publishers 2/3(1990-09-01), 191-197 0921-898X 2:3<191 1990 2 11187 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00389527 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00389527 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Levi-Mazloum Daniel Battm. des facultés des sc. hum. 1, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015, Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- von Ungern-Sternberg Thomas Battm. des facultés des sc. hum. 1, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015, Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Small Business Economics Kluwer Academic Publishers 2/3(1990-09-01), 191-197 0921-898X 2:3<191 1990 2 11187 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence SWISSBIB 272832049 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer