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The power of individual-level drivers of inventive performance

Zwick, Thomas; Frosch, Katharina; Hoisl, Karin; … - 2015

Based on an established theoretical framework of the drivers of inventive performance, the so-called KSAO (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other) factors, this paper seeks to explain empirically the performance of inventors throughout their careers. We combine survey information spanning the...

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Empirical evidence on the success of R&D co-operation : happy together?

Aschhoff, Birgit (contributor); Schmidt, Tobias (contributor) - 2006

In this paper we analyse the effect of R&D co-operation on firms’ innovation performance. We investigate the effect of …-operation partners. The analysis rests on firm-level data from two consecutive waves of the annual German innovation survey. We find that …

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Motives for innovation co-coperation : evidence from the Canadian survey of innovation

Schmidt, Tobias (contributor) - 2007

In this paper we analyse the decision of firms in the Canadian manufacturing sector to co-operate on innovation … innovation activities, which influence the motives for innovation co-operation. Using data from the Canadian Survey of Innovation …

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Absorptive capacity - one size fits all? : A firm-level analysis of absorptive capacity for different kinds of knowledge

Schmidt, Tobias (contributor) - 2005

from research institutions. Using data from the German innovation survey we investigate how firms are able to exploit … knowledge from external partners for successful innovation activities. The estimation results show that the determinants of … absorptive capacity differ with respect to the type of knowledge absorbed for innovation activities. In particular we find that …

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Two for the price of one? : On additionality effects of R&D subsidies ; a comparison between Flanders and Germany

Aerts, Kris (contributor); Schmidt, Tobias (contributor) - 2006

, using firm level data from the Flemish and German part of the Community Innovation survey (CIS III and IV). Both the non …

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Invalid but infringed? : an analysis of Germany’s bifurcated patent litigation system

Cremers, Katrin; Gaessler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - 2014

We analyze the impact of the probabilistic nature of patents on the functioning of Germany’s bifurcated patent litigation system where infringement and validity of a patent are decided independently by different courts. We show that bifurcation creates situations in which a patent is held...

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Innovationsanreize in einem strukturellen Oligopolmodell

Harhoff, Dietmar - 1997 - Revidiert: Februar 1997

The paper develops an oligopoly model of innovation and applies it to data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel. The … complexity, etc. are important determinants of overall innovation expenditures, but not for R&D specifically. If legal protection … affect the innovation activity of the firm. Specification tests derived from the theoretical model do not lead to a rejection …

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Citation frequency and the value of patented innovation

Harhoff, Dietmar; Narin, Francis; Scherer, Frederic M.; … - 1997

Through a survey, economic value estimates were obtained on 962 inventions made in the United States and Germany and on which German patent renewal fees were paid to full-term expiration in 1995. A search of subsequent U.S. and German patents yielded a count of citations to those patents....

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The role of patents and licenses in securing external finance for innovation

Harhoff, Dietmar - In: EIB papers 14 (2009) 2, pp. 74-97

Financing constraints have been discussed as a major obstacle to innovation. Small and mediumsized enterprises and … sense and as instruments for financing innovation. It also discusses implications of these developments for public policy …

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Die Evolution der bundesdeutschen Forschungs- und Technologiepolitik : Rückblick und Bestandsaufnahme

Fier, Andreas; Harhoff, Dietmar - 2001

In Deutschland beanspruchen gleich zwei Ressorts, das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) sowie das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi) die Zuständigkeit für die deutsche Innovationspolitik. Dieses für den Bund offensichtlich bedeutsame Politikfeld...

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