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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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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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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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