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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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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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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level : empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries

Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001

This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...

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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...

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Inkrementelle versus radikale Innovationen am Beispiel der Kraftwerkstechnik

Rennings, Klaus (contributor); Markewitz, Peter (contributor) - 2008

Druckkohlenstaubfeuerung als radikale Innovation und überkritische Kohlekraftwerke als inkrementelle Innovation miteinander verglichen. Anhand …

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How clean is clean? : incremental versus radical technological change in coal-fired power plants

Rennings, Klaus; Markewitz, Peter; Vögele, Stefan - 2009

(PPCC) as a radical innovation and supercritical coal-fired power plants as an incremental innovation are compared. An ex … sector of large-scale power plants is that an innovation is more likely to succeed the more it follows established …

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Increasing energy and resource efficiency through innovation : an explorative analysis using innovation survey data

Rennings, Klaus; Rammer, Christian - 2009

the environmental performance of firms. It is thus worth asking how the innovation activities and performance of firms … with regard to energy and resource efficiency look like: Do EREI firms follow distinct innovation strategies? Do EREIs spur … or limit innovation success? And what are the particular features of EREI firms compared to conventional innovators …

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Long-term impacts of environmental policy and eco-innovative activities of firms

Rennings, Klaus; Rexhäuser, Sascha - 2010

term effects of regulation on innovation. Second, whether the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the … Community Innovation Survey 2009, in which companies were asked to cite the respective regulations to be responsive for the … regulation on innovation. Furthermore, different types of regulations varied with respect to their impact on several …

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The impact of regulation-driven environmental innovation on innovation success and firm performance

Rennings, Klaus; Rammer, Christian - 2010

-driven environmental innovation may impose additional costs to firms and lower their profits. On the other hand, eco-innovators could … profit from lower uncertainty in innovation due to regulatory standards and demand-generating effects of regulation. In this … paper we analyse (a) whether regulation-driven environmental innovation generate similar innovation success compared to …

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Environmental innovation and employment dynamics in different technology fields : an analysis based on the German community innovation survey 2009

Horbach, Jens; Rennings, Klaus - 2012

analyzing these effects for different environmental innovation fields. We use the 2009 wave of the German part of the Community … Innovation Panel (CIS) allowing for such an analysis at the firm level. The main focus of the paper lies on the analysis of the … adaptation behavior of firms with respect to the relationship of employment and (environmental) innovation. We use an endogenous …

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