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 …

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

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

Although there seems to be consensus in the literature that venture capital investors increase the innovation output of … from seven European countries, we investigate which form of venture capital is most supportive of innovation. Our results … suggest that in companies financed by syndicates and by private venture capital investors, the innovation output increases …

innovation, i.e. weakly controlled managers show a higher innovation propensity. However, the higher the leverage the more …

Nanomaterials are seen as a key technology for the 21st Century, and much is expected of them in terms of innovation … products. In this context, it seems all the more important for regions to put their own innovation systems in place, and to … conditions and configurations allow a regional innovation system to be competitive in a cutting-edge technology like …

manufacturing in 2000, it turns out that patents are important to protect intellectual property in the market, whereas secrecy seems …