Robin Döttling
Institution
Erasmus University Rotterdam
PhD Year
2019
doettling@rsm.nl
FTG Membership
Member
Website
https://www.robindoettling.org
Featured Work
Mar 6, 2026
Intellectual Property Protection for AI-Generated Output
Generative AI has the potential to transform corporate innovation, but intellectual property (IP) created without sufficient human input is ineligible for protection by IP systems. We model a firm’s choice of AI versus human-capital use when investing in innovation, with IP protection granted based on a noisy signal of human-capital use. We derive a sufficient statistic for the IP policy’s effect on incentives and characterize...
Jun 5, 2025