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Adverse effects of patent pooling on product development and commercialization
Jeitschko, Thomas D.; Zhang, Nanyun - 2013
role of the effect of pooling on downstream innovation. The focus of this paper is on downstream product development and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311968
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Patents as quality signals? The implications for financing constraints on R&D
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hall, Bronwyn H.; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2014
Information about the success of a new technology is usually held asymmetrically between the research and development (R&D)-performing firm and potential lenders and investors. This raises the cost of capital for financing R&D externally, resulting in financing constraints on R&D especially for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333110
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Innovation and dominant design in mobile telephony
Koski, Heli; Kretschmer, Tobias - 2006
We document the evolution of product innovation and features in the mobile telephone handset market. We distinguish … between two types of product innovation: vertical and horizontal innovation. Using data from 1990 - 2003, we find that some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285067
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Quantity or quality? Knowledge alliances and their effects on patenting
Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes-Bento, Cindy - 2013
This study shows for a large sample of R&D-active manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2009 that knowledge alliances have a positive effect on patenting in terms of both quantity and quality. However, when distinguishing between alliances that aim at joint creation of new knowledge and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327546
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Is service innovation different?
Leiponen, Aija - 2008
This exploratory empirical study compares the determinants of innovation in manufacturing and services through … different innovation objectives or cooperating with different types of partners appears to have detrimental effects on service … innovation. We interpret the latter results through reference to service firms' R&D and alliance management capabilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273068
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Determinants of manufacturing-R&D co-location
Ketokivi, Mikko; Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki - 2007
The phenomenon of physical R&D-manufacturing co-location is interesting, because researchers have made very different observations regarding its prevalence. In some populations co-location of the two functions seems to be the norm; in others, an exception. However, we still do not have an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284941
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Product complexity in the adoption of user-customized systems
Gamharter, Benedikt; Koski, Heli; Kretschmer, Tobias - 2009
three factors that may affect the adoption decision: product complexity, architectural innovation and competency scale. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273062
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When does co-location of manufacturing and R&D matter?
Ketokivi, Mikko - 2006
While both manufacturing and R&D location decisions have received considerable theoretical and empirical attention from economists and organization scientists, theories and evidence regarding the co-location of the two are scarce. The goal of this article is to lay the theoretical foundation for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284965
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The impact of technological and non-technological innovations on firm growth
Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Martikainen, Olli - 2008
This study investigates the relationship between innovations and firm growth, based on the data of Finnish firms operating in the software industry. We find that in terms of turnover and employment, firms with only technological innovations do not grow more rapidly than other firms. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272988
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Economics of collective benchmarking: Learning in research and innovation policy
Paasi, Marianne - 2002
and innovation policies provides routines for exploiting various types learning sources”. While benchmarking is a flexible …Central concerns of research and innovation policies under uncertainty and systemic complexity are market and systemic … the effectiveness of research and innovation policies and, therefore, the performances of particular countries and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285158