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Do trademarks diminish the substitutability of products in innovative knowledge-intensive services?
Crass, Dirk; Schwiebacher, Franz - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Trademarks are often supposed to reduce substitutability and imitability of product innovations. Using German CIS data for 2010, we provide empirical evidence that trademarking firms assess easy product substitutability as less characteristic for their competitive environment. This is...
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Innovation strategies of German firms: The effect of competition and intellectual property protection
Slivko, Olga - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
affect firms' innovation strategy choices, concretely, whether to abstain from innovation, to introduce products that are … known in the market but new to the firm (imitation) or to introduce market novelties (innovation). Using a sample of 1253 … effectiveness is low or medium, both innovation and imitation are enhanced, whereas if it is high, only innovation is enhanced. …
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Quantity or quality? Collaboration strategies in research and development and incentives to patent
Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes-Bento, Cindy - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
This study shows for a large sample of R&D-active manufacturing firms that collaborative R&D has a positive effect on firms' patenting in terms of both quantity and quality. When distinguishing between alliances that aim at joint creation of new knowledge and alliances that aim at exchange of...
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Is Silence Golden? Patents versus Secrecy at the Firm Level
Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
In the 1990s, patenting schemes changed in many respects: upcoming new technologies accelerated the shift from price competition towards competition based on technical inventions, a worldwide surge in patenting took place, and the ?patent thicket? arose as a consequence of strategic patenting....
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Determinants of Patent Litigation in Germany
Cremers, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of patent litigation in Germany, based on information from suits filed during the period from 1993 to 1995 at two of the three most important district courts. A control group was formed by selecting a random sample from the population...
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Citation Frequency and the Value of Patented Innovation
Vopel, Katrin; Scherer, Frederic M.; Narin, Francis; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1997
Through a survey, economic value estimates were obtained on 962 inventions made in the United States and Germany and on which German patent renewal fees were paid to full-term expiration in 1995. A search of subsequent U.S. and German patents yielded a count of citations to those patents....
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Entrepreneurs from low-skilled immigrant groups in knowledge-intensive industries - company characteristics, survival and innovative performance
Mueller, Elisabeth - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
This paper analyzes how companies of immigrant entrepreneurs in knowledgeintensive industries differ from companies of native entrepreneurs with respect to start-up characteristics, firm survival and innovative performance. I focus on immigrants from the 'recruitment countries' of south and...
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Intellectual property infringements due to R&D abroad? A comparative analysis between firms with international and domestic R&D activities
Schmiele, Anja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
analysis rests on the German data from the Europe-wide Community Innovation Survey (CIS). We use a unique data set of about 900 … domestic innovation activities the later wave reports IP infringements. In a second analysis, the likelihood of infringements … from innovation host countries and no innovation host countries abroad is examined. Before the empirical analysis, an …
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The impact of brand use on innovation performance: Empirical results for Germany
Crass, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
The market launch of product innovations is the most visible output of a firm's investment in innovation activities. To … number of different ways, and optimize their innovation process. The success of a firm's innovation strategy has two … product innovation. Second, the ability to turn the market introduction of a product innovation into commercial success. While …
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Which firms use trademarks - and why? Representative firm-level evidence from Germany
Crass, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
Trademarking firms are more productive, generate higher profits, and have a better survival rate. Trademarking firms are in one word more successful, which might motivate non-trademarking firms to adopt a trademark strategy. But this seems not to be the case. The proportion of trademarking firms...
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