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Why and how do scientists commercialize their research? Towards a typology of inventors
Goktepe-Hultan, Devrim - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Incentives and assistance provided by TTOs, university policies, patent legislation and scientific disciplines are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031997
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R&D Subsidies to Start-ups - Effective Drivers of Patent Activity and Employment Growth?
Cantner, Uwe; Kösters, Sarah - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
than evaluating a single program, we estimate the impact of R&D subsidies on start-ups' employment growth and their patent …%. Furthermore, subsidized start-ups show a 2.8 times higher patent output. These estimates provide evidence for the additionality of …-offs which excels in the novelty of business ideas and patent activity. For some of these high-tech start-ups, no non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031999
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University Patenting in Germany before and after 2002: What Role Did the Professors' Privilege Play?
Ledebur, Sidonia von; Buenstorf, Guido; Hummel, Martin - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
patent experience of inventors and universities further help explain the variance in ownership patterns. Both experienced and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005009762
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What do Scientists Want: Money or Fame?
Göktepe, Devrim; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
What makes scientists patent and disclose inventions to employers? Using a new dataset on Max Planck scientists, we … explore their motivations to patent and/or disclose inventions. We propose that patenting need not be used for monetary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032012
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Technology transfer offices and university patenting - a review
Ledebur, Sidonia von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This policy paper on science-industry technology transfer has four emphases: the rationale of recent changes in German science policy, the contribution of diverse transfer channels to economic development as well as the role of IPR in that context, the differences in the institutional framework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090556
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A Theoretical Framework for Understanding University Inventors and Patenting
Göktepe, Devrim - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper develops theoretical standpoints to investigate and analyse university inventors and patenting activities. Although the studies on academic entrepreneurship and university patenting have substantially increased, first there have not been enough studies on individual inventors and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090563
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Knowledge and its Economic Characteristics - A Conceptual Clarification
Witt, Ulrich; Broekel, Tom; Brenner, Thomas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper discusses several features of knowledge that are often considered crucial for characterizing the economic significance of knowledge: whether it is overtly accessible or tacit, whether it can be or is encoded or not, and whether it has public or private good character. It is argued...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090570
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New Rationales for Innovation Policy? A Comparison of the Systems of Innovation Policy Approach and the Neoclassical Perspective
Schröter, Alexandra - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Ever since its introduction in the 1990s, the systems of innovations (SI) concept has received a great deal of attention from researchers and politicians. The systems of innovation policy (SIP) approach, which is based on the SI concept, is considered an alternative to neoclassical theory. Its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012076
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy
Stam, Erik - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
What is meant by entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth is often not clear or very idiosyncratic. This paper starts with a discussion of the nature of entrepreneurship and its relation to innovation. The second section provides an overview of theory and empirical research on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032026
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The Economics of Net Neutrality Revisited
Pehnelt, Gernot - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In this paper, we analyze the problem of congestion and quality loss of data transmission through the Internet from an economic perspective. We show that due to the congestion problem, quality sensitive services are likely to be crowded out by high volume but less quality sensitive applications...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090504