2004-09-07 DE New study about economic efficiency of software patents
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A new interesting model is presented in the German scientific paper "Wirtschaftsinformatik"
Beimborn, D., Hoppen, N.: A simulative Approach to Determing the Economic Efficiency of software Patents, in: Wirtschaftsinformatik 46(2004), S. 50-60.
Both are researchers from Frankfurt, Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik. It is a non-partisan approach, which is quite uncommon in this field.
It is a report from ongoing research.
Comments
(Note: only few people have access to the paper, so we can just quote comments here)
I am not convinced by their model, however it is worth a read. It IS very difficult to determine the effects of patents on innovation and model it.
This is the most complicated economic modeling endeavour I have seen so far. I am sceptic about such modeling because it starts with simplification and subsequently very detailed conclusions are drawn.
