Real Options and Intellectual Property

1. Introduction

Part I. Patenting Under Uncertainty

2. Patent Protection, the Firm, and the Economy

3. Uncertainty, Irreversibility, and Flexibility

4. Patent Protection in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Part II. Exogenous Patent Risk

5. Introduction and Related Work

6. Patents as Investment Opportunities

7. Patent Risk as Jumps in the Underlying Process

8. From Business Shifts to Jump Processes

9. Preliminary Conclusion

Part III. Endogenous Patent Risk

10. Introduction and Related Work

11. Patent Risk as an Option to Litigate

12. Preliminary Conclusion

13. Conclusion

DRM-restrictions

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Nyckelord: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science BUS042000