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Information leakage, imitation, and the patent system

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Criekingen, Kristof van - 2021 - This version: August 2021

firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent … of patents on the dissemination of R&D findings is, however, insignificant. Therefore, we conclude that patent … functioning of the contemporary patent system. We find that patenting firms are being less confronted with imitation. The effect …

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Financial constraints for R&D and innovation : new evidence from a survey experiment

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Giebel, Marek - 2021

We utilize a new survey experiment to evaluate the existence and degree of financial constraints for R&D in the economy. The experiment does not only allow to deduct the presence of financial constraints, but also to evaluate their economic significance. Using data on German companies, we find...

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Artificial intelligence and industrial innovation : evidence from firm-level data

Rammer, Christian; Fernández, Gastón P.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2021 - This version: March 2021

Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a set of techniques that enable new ways of innovation and allows firms to offer new features of products and services, to improve production, marketing and administration processes, and to introduce new business models. This paper analyses the extent to...

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Publicly funded R&D collaborations and patent outcome in Germany

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2003

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An empirical test of the asymmetric models on innovative activity : who invests more into R&D - the incumbent or the challenger?

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2000

challenger invests more into R&D in order to enter a new market than the incumbent. Thus, the patent racing model by Reinganum …

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Patent collateral and access to debt

Bracht, Felix; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2022 - This version: August 3, 2022

-in-difference regressions on firms' debt allows deducting treatment effects of using patents as collateral. We find that patent pledging enables …We investigate how intangible capital in form of intellectual property, such as patents, might mitigate financing … constraints. While scholars have already argued that patents might have a signalling value reducing information asymmetries …

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Artificial intelligence and firm-level productivity

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fernández, Gastón P.; Rammer, Christian - 2022

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often regarded as the next general-purpose technology with a rapid, penetrating, and far-reaching use over a broad number of industrial sectors. A main feature of new general-purpose technology is to enable new ways of production that may increase productivity. So...

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Open innovation deficiency : evidence on project abandonment and delay

Criekingen, Kristof van; Freel, Mark; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2021

The concept of Open Innovation (OI) has breathed new life into both empirical research and industry practice concerned with distributed and collaborative modes of innovating. Certainly, the volume of OI research and its impact on practice has been remarkable. However, equally remarkable is the...

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Pandemic effects : do innovation activities of firms suffer from long-Covid?

Trunschke, Markus; Peters, Bettina; Czarnitzki, Dirk; … - 2023 - This version: 2.6.2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected firms in many economies. Exploiting treatment heterogeneity, we use a difference-in-differences design to causally identify the short-run impact of COVID-19 on innovation spending in 2020 and expected innovation spending in subsequent years. Based on a...

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Policy uncertainty and inventor mobility

Bisset, Jordan; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Doherr, Thorsten - 2022

We follow the migration patterns of European inventors and find evidence of a novel emigration determinant: policy uncertainty. We find that policy uncertainty raises the rate of inventor emigration by a notable magnitude. With a one standard deviation in the policy uncertainty of the home...

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