Research Article

Bargaining in Patent Licensing Negotiations under Stochastic Environments: An Experimental Study

Table 1

Experimental results of averages among treatments.

VariablesTreatments
Low-risk marketHigh-risk market
One-licensee Two-licensee One-licensee Two-licensee

Numbers of subjects4233
Offer4.705.294.645.19
WTA6.106.295.365.93
Accepted offer (1st/2nd)a5.045.65 (5.78/5.41)a5.075.65 (5.63/5.62)a
Rate of acceptance % (1st/2nd)a66.4 92.9 (53.6/84.6)a70.996.3 (61.3/90.3)a
Payoff
 licensee326.571400.179352.727449.455
 licensor624.5381056.786718.1821173.818

Note: aThe first and second numbers in parentheses denote the first and second offers from Two-licensee game.