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An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Patents and Secrecy on Knowledge Spillovers

Schmidt, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

disclosure requirement of patents generates some spillover and at the same time allows firms to appropriate knowledge. In this … paper we empirically analyze whether protection by secrecy or protection by patents is associated with lower knowledge … methods. Our estimations show that the usage of both, patents and secrecy, hinders the innovation activities of firms through …

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Measuring Knowledge Spillovers in Manufacturing and Services: An Empirical Assessment of Alternative Approaches

Kaiser, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

In this paper it is tested which of the various alternative approaches for constructing knowledge spillover pools suggested in existing literature measures the extent to which a firm can costlessly receive external knowlegde best. Since knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit'...

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Research Cooperation and Research Expenditures with Endogenous Absorptive Capacity: Theory and Microeconometric Evidence for the German Service Sector

Kaiser, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

This paper derives a three stage Cournot duopoly game for research collaboration, research expenditures and product market competition. The amount of knowledge firms can absorb from other firms is made dependent on their own research efforts, e.g., firms? absorptive capacity is treated as an...

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Public research and industrial innovations in Germany

Beise, Marian; Stahl, Harald - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1998

This paper deals with the effects of publicly funded research at universities, polytechnics and federal research labs on industrial innovations in Germany. We discuss the characteristics of companies that benefit from the findings of public research institutions. In questioning 2,300 companies...

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A simple game-theoretical framework for studying R&D expenditures and R&D cooperation

Kaiser, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

This paper derives a three stage Cournot duopoly game for research collaboration, research expenditures and product market competition. The amount of knowledge firms can absorb is made dependent on their own research efforts, e.g. firms? absorptive capacity is treated as an endogenous variable....

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Integrated Product Policy and Environmental Product Innovations: An Empirical Analysis

Rehfeld, Katharina-Maria; Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

The European Commission has recently stepped up its promotion of the ?Integrated Product Policy?. The objective of the IPP is to support the realisation of environmental product innovations and thus to achieve a broad reduction of all environmental impacts throughout a product?s life cycle....

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End-of-Pipe or Cleaner Production? An Empirical Comparison of Environmental Innovation Decisions Across OECD Countries

Frondel, Manuel; Horbach, Jens; Rennings, Klaus - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

While both fundamental types of abatement measures mitigate the adverse environmental impacts of production, cleaner production technologies are frequently more advantageous than end-of-pipe technologies for environmental and economic reasons. This paper analyzes a variety of factors that might...

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Patents as quality signals? The implications for financing constraints on R&D

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hall, Bronwyn H.; Hottenrott, Hanna - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

evidence for start-up firms on the role of patents as signals to investors, in particular to Venture Capitalists. This study …&D for a panel of established firms. The results show that patents do indeed attenuate financing constraints for small firms …

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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

patenting, our results further suggest that knowledge creation alliances lead to patents that are filed to protect valuable …

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Invalid but infringed? An analysis of Germany's bifurcated patent litigation system

Cremers, Katrin; Gaessler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

We analyze the impact of the probabilistic nature of patents on the functioning of Germany's bifurcated patent … patents immediately afterwards. …

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