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Strategic R&D Delays Generate Market Power
The authors develop an economic growth model in which both the research and development resources to develop new product applications and the market structure of consumption goods manufacturing are determined endogenously. Findings suggest that in order to minimize the strategic delay of inaugural applications, legal patent lengths should be shorter in industries where barriers to entry are relatively low.
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