Technology Licensing and Digital Platform Competition: Cross-Licensing Under Cross-Side Network Effects

Digital platforms are technology intensive and often require access to intellectual property rights. As those rights are often owned by competing platforms, we observe cross-licensing contracts between them. Cross-licensing facilitates the sharing of technologies, leading to less duplication of resources and equal access to technology---facilitating competition on equal terms.

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