Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems: Capital Budgeting Under Imperfect Patent Protection

Baecker, Philipp N.

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.

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Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2007-01-10

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783540482635

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-48264-2

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 282