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Patent Portfolio Races in Concentrated Markets for Technology

Jell, Florian; Henkel, Joachim - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2010

Patent application numbers grow exponentially in many industries, a phenomenon that has been linked to high fragmentation of patent ownership. Contradicting these findings and theoretical arguments, we show that such fragmentation is not a precondition for sudden and strong increases in...

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Defensive Publishing An Empirical Study

Henkel, Joachim; Pangerl, Stefanie - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2008

Defensive Publishing denotes publication of an invention with the purpose of creating prior art, and thus preventing patents being granted on this invention. Although widely employed, it has hardly been investigated empirically. Our study is based on 56 in-depth interviews, among others with...

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Cumulative Innovation, Sampling and the Hold-Up Problem

Pollock, Rufus - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006

With cumulative innovation and imperfect information about the value of innovations, intellectual property rights can result in hold-up and therefore it may be better not to have them. Extending the basic cumulative innovation model to include 'sampling' by second-stage firms, we find that the...

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Licensing Strategies of the Enterprising - but Vulnerable - "Intellectual Property" Vendors

Davis, Lee - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006

This paper investigates in an exploratory manner the licensing strategies pursued by firms whose business model is based on developing and licensing out their intellectual property rights (IPRs). These are not traditional suppliers, since they do not engage in production or commercialization,...

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Collective Invention during the British Industrial Revolution The Case of the Cornish Pumping Engine

Nuvolari, Alessandro - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2001

In this paper, we argue that together with individual inventors and firms, what Robert C. Allen (1983) has termed as collective invention settings (that is settings in which rival firms freely release each other pertinent technical information), were also a crucial source of innovation in the...

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Production Networks Linkages, Innovation Processes and Social Management Technologies. A Methodological Approach Applied to the Volkswagen case in Argentina

Yoguel, Gabriel; Novick, Marta; Marin, Anabel - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2000

The purpose of this paper -as a part of a wider research project - is to analyze the concept of production network from a methodological and theoretical viewpoint based on a three-plane perspective. These dimensions are the linkages among agents, the innovation activities, and the social...

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The Cluster as Market Organization

Maskell, Peter; Lorenzen, Mark - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2003

The many competing schools of thought concerning themselves with industrial clusters have at least one thing in common: they all agree that clusters are real life phenomena characterized by the co-localization of separate economic entities, which are in some sense related, but not joined...

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Outsourcing, Delocalization and Firm Organization: Transaction Costs vs. Industrial Relations in a Local Production System of Emilia-Romagna

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montresor, Sandro; Pini, Paolo - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2008

The paper aims at investigating how far transaction costs economics (TCE) concurs in the explanation of outsourcing …, the paper aims at investigating whether the concurrence of TCE and industrial relationships has different outsourcing … correlations between an original outsourcing extent variable, on the one hand, and a number of proxies related to TCE, industrial …

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The General Profile of the Outsourcing Firm Evidence for a Local Production System of Emilia Romagna

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montresor, Sandro; Pini, Paolo - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006

The paper aims at ‘embedding’ the outsourcing firm by considering it as a four-fold unit of analysis: i.e. as an … organizational, production, industrial and innovation unit. Theoretical correlations between outsourcing decisions and outsourcing … system in Emilia Romagna (that is, Reggio Emilia). The main result of the paper is that outsourcing decisions are indeed …

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