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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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Selectivity in search strategies for innovation : from incremental to radical, from manufacturing to services
Köhler, Christian; Sofka, Wolfgang; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009
The shift towards more open and interconnected innovation activities has been a major topic of recent academic and … universities, to increase the effectiveness of their innovation activities. Hence, management needs to define search strategies for … that search strategies driven by science, suppliers and the product market will contribute differently to innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888039
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Institutionalized Incentives for Ingenuity – Patent Value and the German Employees’ Inventions Act
Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010416329
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Buyer power and suppliers' incentives to innovate
Köhler, Christian; Rammer, Christian - 2012
Buyer power is widely considered to decrease innovation incentives of suppliers. However, there is little empirical … evidence for this statement. Our paper analyses how buyer power influences innovation incentives of upstream firms while taking … suppliers’ R&D intensity if the powerful buyer operates under strong technology competition. -- Innovation ; Buyer Power …
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440946
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Innovation, creative destruction and structural change : firm-level evidence from European Countries
Dachs, Bernhard; Hud, Martin; Köhler, Christian; … - 2016
dynamics. We investigate this reallocation in terms of employment gains and losses from innovation. New employment created by … product innovation may be offset by employment losses in related products, known as 'cannibalisation' or 'business stealing …' effects in the literature, by employment losses from process and organisational innovation and by general productivity …
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Die Evolution der bundesdeutschen Forschungs- und Technologiepolitik : Rückblick und Bestandsaufnahme
Fier, Andreas; Harhoff, Dietmar - 2001
In Deutschland beanspruchen gleich zwei Ressorts, das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) sowie das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi) die Zuständigkeit für die deutsche Innovationspolitik. Dieses für den Bund offensichtlich bedeutsame Politikfeld...
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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 - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 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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