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Hiring new key inventors to improve firms' post-M&A inventive output

Arroyabe, M. F.; Hussinger, Katrin; Hagedoorn, John - 2020

Although merger and acquisitions (M&As) are acknowledged as an important means to access innovative assets and know-how, firms’ inventive output often declines in the post-M&A period. Financial, managerial and organizational constraints related to the M&A event contribute to inventive output...

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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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The long-term effect of research grants on the scientific output of university professors

Hussinger, Katrin; Carvalho, João N. - 2021

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The long-term effect of research grants on the scientific output of university professors

Hussinger, Katrin; Carvalho, João N. - 2021

A major source of research funding for university professors are competitive research grants. With focus on Luxembourg, we present results from a difference-in-difference analysis which show that research grants by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), the central research funding agency...

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Innovation in Malmö after the Öresund Bridge

Ejermo, Olof; Hussinger, Katrin; Kalash, Basheer; … - 2021

We analyze the effect of the Öresund Bridge, a combined railway and motorway bridge between Swedish Malmö and the Danish capital Copenhagen, on inventive activity in the region of Malmö. Applying difference-in-difference estimation on individual-level data, our findings suggest that the...

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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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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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Hiring new key inventors to improve firms' post-M & A inventive output

Arroyabe, M. F.; Hussinger, Katrin; Hagedoorn, John - 2020

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