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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 Act...

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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; … - 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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Filling the gap : the consequences of collaborator loss in corporate R&D

Poege, Felix; Gäßler, 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

Häussler, 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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The battle for patent rights

Harhoff, Dietmar - In: Economic and management perspectives on intellectual …, (pp. 21-39). 2006

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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....

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Firm formation and regional spillovers : evidence from Germany

Harhoff, Dietmar - 1995

This paper studies the effect of regional spillovers on the rate of firm formation in two major West German industries for the time period from 1989 to 1993. I exploit regional variations in firm formation at the county level to identify the effects of historically given industry structure and...

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Das Mannheimer Innovationspanel

Harhoff, Dietmar; Licht, Georg - 1993

gleichzeitig die deutsche Teilerhebung der in allen EG-Ländern durchgeführten 'Community Innovation Survey' dar. Der Fragebogen …

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Everything you always wanted to know about inventors (but never asked) : evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey

Giuri, Paola; Mariani, Myriam; Brusoni, Stefano; … - 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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