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Institutionalized Incentives for Ingenuity – Patent Value and the German Employees’ Inventions Act

Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin - 2006

Germany is one of few countries in which the monetary compensation for inventors is not only determined by negotiations between employer and employee-inventor, but also by relatively precise legal provisions. In this paper, we describe the characteristics of the German Employees’ Inventions...

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Filling the Gap: The Consequences of Collaborator Loss in Corporate R&D

Poege, Felix; Gaessler, Fabian; Hoisl, Karin; Harhoff, … - 2022

We examine how collaborator loss affects knowledge workers in corporate R&D. We argue that such a loss affects the remaining collaborators not only by reducing their team-speciﬁc capital (as argued in the prior literature) but also by increasing their bargaining power over the employer, who is...

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Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Inventors (But Never Asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey

Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin - 2006

Based on a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patented inventions, this paper provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the motivations to invent, and the actual use and...

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To Be Financed or Not … - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing

Haeussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth - 2009

This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncer-tainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...

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Innovationen auf Bestellung? Was von einer stärkeren Nachfrageorientierung in der Innovationspolitik zu halten ist

Dauchert, Helge; Harhoff, Dietmar; Llerena, Patrick; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 66 (2013) 05, pp. 3-19

, Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation, führen dieses Interesse an öffentlicher Beschaffung als innovationsförderliches …-amerikanischen Small-Business-Innovation-Research-Programms – innovative Lösungen von der Idee bis zur Marktreife (und einer etwaigen …

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Bargaining failure and freedom to operate: Re-evaluating the effect of patents on cumulative innovation

Gaessler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar; Sorg, Stefan - 2019

We investigate the causal effect of patent rights on cumulative innovation, using large-scale data that approximate the …

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Patents, freedom to operate, and follow-on innovation: Evidence from post-grant opposition

Gäßler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar; Sorg, Stefan; von … - 2024

We study the blocking effect of patents on follow-on innovation by others. We posit that follow-on innovation requires … freedom to operate (FTO), which firms typically obtain through a license from the patentee holding the original innovation …. Where licensing fails, follow-on innovation is blocked unless firms gain FTO through patent invalidation. Using large …

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Langfristiges Wachstum durch Forschung und Innovation

Achleitner, Ann-Kristin; Allmendinger, Jutta; Grupp, Hariolf - In: ifo Schnelldienst 62 (2009) 10, pp. 16-22

Dietmar Harhoff, LMU und Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation, sieht Handlungsbedarf bei der …

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What Makes Foreign Knowledge Attractiveto Domestic Innovation Managers?

Sofka, Wolfgang - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>

This study focuses on the early stages of international innovation activities, i.e. theorganizational processes through …

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