Below is an overview of working papers and position papers.
Kang, Byeongwoo and Bekkers, Rudi, The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors (November 1, 2022). Hitotsubashi University IIR Working paper WP#22-06, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4270955, DOI 10.2139/ssrn.4270955
Contreras, Jorge L. and Bekkers, Rudi and Biddle, Brad and Bonadio, Enrico and Carrier, Michael A. and Chao, Bernard H. and Duan, Charles and Gilbert, Richard and Henkel, Joachim and Hovenkamp, Erik and Husovec, Martin and Jakobs, Kai and Kim, Dong-hyu and Lemley, Mark A. and Love, Brian J. and McDonagh, Luke and Scott Morton, Fiona M. and Schultz, Jason and Simcoe, Timothy S. and Urban, Jennifer M. and Xiang, Joy, Preserving the Royalty-Free Standards Ecosystem (October 28, 2022). USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS22-40, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 22-40, University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 524, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4235647, DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4235647
Rudi Bekkers, Christian Catalini, Arianna Martinelli, Cesare Righi, Timothy Simcoe (2017). Disclosure rules and declared essential patents. NBER Working Paper 23627, available at http://www.nber.org/papers/w23627. National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge (MA).
de Rassenfosse, Gaétan and Raiteri, Emilio and Bekkers, Rudi, Discrimination in the Patent System: Evidence from Standard-Essential Patents (July 24, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3007699, DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3007699
Bekkers, Rudi and Catalini, Christian and Martinelli, Arianna and Righi, Cesare and Simcoe, Timothy, Disclosure Rules and Declared Essential Patents (July 18, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3005009, DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3005009
Rudi Bekkers, Christian Catalini, Arianna Martinelli, Cesare Righi, Timothy Simcoe (2016). Declared Essential Patents. Working Paper Series No. 16003. Stanford University, Hoover Institution Working Group on Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Prosperity.
Bekkers, Rudi, Concerns and Evidence for Ex-Post Hold-Up with Essential Patents (September 22, 2015). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2663939, DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2663939. Accepted as paper in the SSRN eJournal Law, Policy & Economics of Technical Standards
Rudi Bekkers, Justus Baron, Arianna Martinelli, Yann Ménière, Önder Nomaler, Tim Pohlmann (2014). Selected quantitative studies of patents in standards. Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo), Institute of Innovation Research, PIE/CIS Working Paper 626. Available at http://cis.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/Japanese/publication/cis/2014.html. Also available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2457064, DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2457064
Salimi, N., Bekkers, R.N.A. & Frenken, K. (2014). Does working with industry come at a price? A study of doctoral candidates’ performance in collaborative vs. non- collaborative PhD projects. ECIS working paper 14.09, Eindhoven: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.
Negin Salimi, Rudi Bekkers and Koen Frenken (2013). Governance Mode Choice in Collaborative PhD Projects. ECIS working paper 13.09, Eindhoven: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.
Negin Salimi, Rudi Bekkers and Koen Frenken (2013). Governance and success of university-industry collaborations on the basis of Ph.D. projects – an explorative study. ECIS working paper 13.05, Eindhoven: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.
Byeongwoo Kang and Rudi Bekkers (2013). Just-in-time inventions and the development of standards: How firms use opportunistic strategies to obtain standard-essential patents (SEPs). ECIS working paper 13.01, Eindhoven: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.
Rudi Bekkers & Joel West (2006). The Effect of Strategic Patenting on Cumulative Innovation in UMTS Standardization. DIME working paper no. 9.
Rudi Bekkers 