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To Be Financed or Not…: The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing
Mueller, Elisabeth; Harhoff, Dietmar; Haeussler, Carolin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
British biotechnology companies we have identified all patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate …
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Do University Based Regions Really Attract Outside Entrepreneurs: The Case of the German Biotechnology Industry
Engel, Dirk; Heneric, Oliver - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
?s biotechnology founders. We present an unique approach to highlight the role of knowledge spillovers as we differentiate according …
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Stimuliert der BioRegio-Wettbewerb die Bildung von Biotechnologieclustern in Deutschland?
Engel, Dirk; Heneric, Oliver - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
Regions with biotechnology-specific knowledge seem to have best chances to attract potential entrepreneurs to establish … a biotechnology-firm. Furthermore, regional oriented technology policy is supposed to stimulate the creation process of … biotechnology clusters, too. The BioRegio contest (BRC) is the most prominent example for this kind of policy support. The analysis …
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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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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
While often presumed in academic literature and policy discussions there is little empirical evidence showing that academic patents protect more basic inventions than corporate patents. This study provides new evidence on the basicness of academic patents using German professor patents linked to...
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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...
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R&D partnerships and innovation performance: Can there be too much of a good thing?
Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes-Bento, Cindy - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
R&D collaboration facilitates pooling of complementary skills, learning from the partner as well as sharing risks and costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance. Fewer studies addressed potential drawbacks of...
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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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A look at both sides of the coin: Investigating the protective and the disclosure effect of patenting
Heger, Diana; Zaby, Alexandra K. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical investigation of the two basic effects of patenting: the positive effect of temporarily mitigating competition, and the negative effect of mandatory disclosure of a patent application. Providing empirical evidence for the presented theoretical...
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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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