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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 …

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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...

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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...

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Policy-induced environmental technology and inventive efforts: Is there a crowding out?

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha - 2013

innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a potential crowding out of inventive efforts could increase the cost of mitigating …. However, we do not find negative effects on the number of ongoing R&D projects, investments in innovation-related fixed assets … or on the outcome of innovation projects. Likewise, for firms with subsidy-backed environmental innovations no crowding …

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Collusion through joint R&D: An empirical assessment

Duso, Tomaso; Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Seldeslachts, Jo - 2012

This paper tests whether upstream R&D cooperation leads to downstream collusion. We consider an oligopolistic setting where firms enter in research joint ventures (RJVs) to lower production costs or coordinate on collusion in the product market. We show that a sufficient condition for...

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A spatial approach to measure productivity spillovers of foreign affiliated firms in Turkish manufacturing industries

Karaçuka, Mehmet; Catik, A. Nazif - 2011

In this paper we aim to analyze the productivity spillovers of foreign affiliated and domestic firms in Turkish manufacturing industries. As a novelty inter-sectoral linkages are modeled through the use of spatial models. Our results indicate the existence of positive and significant...

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Mergers and market power: Evidence from rivals' responses in European markets

Stiebale, Joel; Szücs, Florian - 2019

This paper analyzes the effects of mergers and acquisitions on the markups of non-merging rival firms across a broad set of industries. We exploit expert market definitions from the European Commission's merger decisions to identify relevant competitors in narrowly defined product markets....

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Import competition and vertical integration: Evidence from India

Stiebale, Joel; Vencappa, Dev - 2018

Recent theoretical contributions provide conflicting predictions about the effects of product market competition on firms' organizational choices. This paper uses a rich firm-product-level panel data set of Indian manufacturing firms to analyze the relationship between import competition and...

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Gains from patent protection: Innovation, market power and cost savings in India

Gupta, Apoorva; Stiebale, Joel - 2024

We study the effect of stronger patent protection on innovation activities of firms and firm-product level markups …

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How mergers affect innovation: Theory and evidence from the pharmaceutical industry

Haucap, Justus; Stiebale, Joel - 2016

This papers analyses how horizontal mergers affect innovation activities of the merged entity and its non … predicts that a merger is more likely to be profitable in an innovation intensive industry. For a high degree of firm … heterogeneity, a merger reduces innovation of both the merged entity and non-merging competitors in an industry with high R …

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