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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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Innovation, employment growth, and foreign ownership of firms: A European perspective
Dachs, Bernhard; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The empirical analysis, based on the model of Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse and Peters (2008) and CIS data for 16 countries, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957608
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Competing internationally: On the importance of R&D for export activity
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Wastyn, Annelies - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
Export is an important factor to improve growth and welfare especially for industrialized small, open economies such as Belgium. Policy may be interested in key variables that can influence export. This paper finds evidence for the importance of R&D for export activities using Belgian firm-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694125
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Against the one-way-street: Analyzing knowledge transfer from industry to science
Fier, Heide; Pyka, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
This study aims at analyzing the differences in the factors that influence the probability of knowledge transfer within industry and from industry to science in the biotechnology sector. In order to model these knowledge flows a citation analysis on the basis of patent data was conducted and a...
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Industry funding of university research and scientific productivity
Hottenrott, Hanna; Thorwarth, Susanne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
University research provides valuable inputs to industrial innovation. It is therefore not surprising that private sector firms increasingly seek direct access through funding public R&D. This development, however, spurred concerns about possible negative long-run effects on scientific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147347
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Industry funding of university research and scientific productivity
Hottenrott, Hanna; Thorwarth, Susanne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
University research provides valuable inputs to industrial innovation. It is therefore not surprising that private sector firms increasingly seek direct access through funding public R&D. This development, however, spurred concerns about possible negative long-run effects on scientific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804642
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R&D cooperation and R&D intensity: theory and micro-econometric evidence for german manufacturing industries
Kaiser, Ulrich; Licht, Georg - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1998
This paper develops a three stage oligopoly game for R&D cooperation, R&D expenditure and product market competition. In the first stage, firms decide whether or not to conduct R&D in cooperation with other firms. In the second stage the level of R&D investment is determined. Finally, firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097813
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Concubinage or Marriage? Informal and Formal Cooperations for Innovation
Keilbach, Max; Bönte, Werner - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
line with previous empirical work, we do not find much empirical evidence for the relevance of incoming spillovers. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097987
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The Effects of Regional and Industry: Wide FDI Spillovers on Export of Ukrainian Firms
Park, Sang-Min; Talavera, Oleksandr; Lutz, Stefan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003
In this paper we investigate the effects of region and industry?wide spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) on … competition and linkage effects through industrial and regional spillovers respectively. We use a simple Cournot competition model … in order to test for industrial and regional spillovers. The estimation results suggest that large firms, durable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098209
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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
This article analyzes how the perceived effectiveness of intellectual property protection and competitive pressure 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...
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