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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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Quantity or quality? Collaboration strategies in research and development and incentives to patent
Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes-Bento, Cindy - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
patent quantity is driven by knowledge exchange rather than joint R&D. Firms engaged in joint R&D, on the other hand, receive … more forward citations per patent indicating that joint R&D enhances patent quality. In light of literature on strategic …
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The value of disclosing IPR to open standard setting organizations
Hussinger, Katrin; Schwiebacher, Franz - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Open standard-setting organizations (SSOs) have emerged as important coordination and diffusion mechanism for information and communication technologies. Open standards are developed non-discriminatorily and licensed to anybody at reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. Little is known about...
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The influence of strategic patenting on companies' patent portfolios
Blind, Knut; Cremers, Katrin; Mueller, Elisabeth - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
This paper analyses whether strategic motives for patenting influence the characteristics of companies' patent … survey and patent data from German companies. We find clear evidence that the companies' patenting strategies explain the … characteristics of their patent portfolios. First, companies using patents to protect their technological knowledge base receive a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533674
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Commercializing Academic Research: The Quality of Faculty Patenting
Schneider, Cédric; Hussinger, Katrin; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
The knowledge produced by academic scientists has been identified as a potential key driver of technological progress. Recent policies in Europe aim at increasing commercially orientated activities in academe. Based on a sample of German scientists across all fields of science we investigate the...
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The Influence of Strategic Patenting on Companies' Patent Portfolios
Blind, Knut; Cremers, Katrin; Mueller, Elisabeth - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
This paper analyses whether strategic motives for patenting influence the characteristics of companies' patent … survey and patent data from German companies. We find clear evidence that the companies' patenting strategies explain the … characteristics of their patent portfolios. First, companies using patents to protect their technological knowledge base receive a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097710
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Heterogeneity of Patenting Activity and Its Implications for Scientific Research
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Glänzel, Wolfgang; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
The increasing commercialization of university discoveries has initiated a controversy on the impacts for future scientific research. It has been argued that an increasing orientation towards commercialization may have a negative impact on more fundamental research efforts in science. Several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097890
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Why challenge the ivory tower? New evidence on the basicness of academic patents
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Schneider, Cédric - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
academic patents using German professor patents linked to patent opposition data from the European Patent Office (EPO). Patent … patent value, asymmetric information and diverging expectations between the opposition parties, the likelihood of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097902
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The nexus between science and industry: evidence from faculty inventions
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Schneider, Cédric - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
Against the background of the so-called European paradox, i.e. the conjecture that EU countries lack the capability to transfer science into commercial innovations, knowledge transfer from academia to industry has been a central issue in policy debates recently. Based on a sample of German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098099
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The Role of Technology in M&As: A Firm Level Comparison of Cross-Border and Domestic Deals
Frey, Rainer; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
financial information and patent data for public firms in Europe as well as country level variables, we apply a structural model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098158