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Real Options and Intellectual Property

Capital Budgeting Under Imperfect Patent Protection

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems (LNE, volume 587)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      Pages 1-6
  3. Exogenous Patent Risk

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
    2. Preliminary Conclusion

      Pages 181-182
  4. Endogenous Patent Risk

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
    2. Preliminary Conclusion

      Pages 221-222
    3. Conclusion

      Pages 223-224
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 225-278

About this book

Over the last years, due to intensive competition in the knowledge economy, legal aspects surrounding intellectual property (IP) rights - including litigation and settlement - have continuously gained in importance. Correspondingly, professional IP management has become an indispensable element of successful value-based management (VBM) in research-intensive firms.

With this text, the author proposes an integrated approach to patent risk and capital budgeting in pharmaceutical research and development (R and D), developing an option-based view (OBV) of imperfect patent protection, which draws upon contingent-claims analysis, stochastic game theory, as well as novel numerical methods. Bridging a widening gap between recent advances in the theory of financial analysis and current challenges faced by pharmaceutical companies, the text re-initiates a discussion about the contribution of quantitative frameworks to value-based R and D management.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Finance and Accounting, European Business School International University Schloß Reichartshausen, Oestrich-Winkel, Germany

    Philipp N. Baecker

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