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

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

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International cooperation on innovation : empirical evidence for German and Portuguese firms

Faria, Pedro (contributor); Schmidt, Tobias (contributor) - 2007

innovation activities. Portuguese and German data from the harmonised Community Innovation Survey (CIS III) allow us to compare … innovation cooperation behaviour of private firms in the two countries. Using a bivariate probit model, we show that the …

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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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