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Are firms withdrawing from basic research? : an analysis of firm-level publication behaviour in Germany

Krieger, Bastian; Pellens, Maikel; Blind, Knut; … - 2020

Previous research has expressed concerns about firms engaging less in basic research. We contribute to this debate by studying trends in the scientific publishing activities of firms located in Germany. Our results do not confirm a declining trend in raw numbers with numbers indicating that...

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The interplay between product innovation, publishing, patenting and developing standards

Blind, Knut; Krieger, Bastian; Pellens, Maikel - 2022 - This version: May 2020

. While the individual effects of engaging in the listed practices on firm innovation are well-understood, the existing … sample of innovation-active firms from the German Community Innovation Survey, which includes information on the development … of standards, enhanced with information on firms' engagement in patenting and publishing. We find that 26% of innovation …

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The anatomy of Chinese innovation : insights on patent quality and ownership

Boeing, Philipp; Brandt, Loren; Dai, Ruochen; Lim, Kevin; … - 2024

We study the evolution of patenting in China from 1985-2019. We use a Large Language Model to measure patent importance based on patent abstracts and classify patent ownership using a comprehensive business registry. We highlight four insights. First, average patent importance declined from...

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Special issue: Innovation and regulation

Blind, Knut (contributor) - 2007

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A global decline in research productivity? : evidence from China and Germany

Boeing, Philipp; Hünermund, Paul - 2020

In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U.S. economy during the last 40 years. In this paper, we replicate their findings for China and Germany, using detailed firm-level data spanning three decades. Our results indicate that...

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The impact of the EU General Data Protection Regulation on innovation in firms

Blind, Knut; Niebel, Crispin Miles; Rammer, Christian - 2022

consensus on whether this new privacy regulation is beneficial or detrimental to innovation. This study provides empirical … evidence on the impact of the GDPR on innovation activities in firms. Exploiting panel data from the German innovation survey …, a difference-in-difference analysis shows that the GDPR stimulated additional innovation activity while shifting the …

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Measuring China's patent quality : development and validation of ISR indices

Boeing, Philipp; Müller, Elisabeth - 2019

Because China has become one of the largest applicants of PCT patents, it is of interest to compare the quality of Chinese and non-Chinese applications. We extend a quality index based on internationally comparable citation data from international search reports (ISR) to consider foreign,...

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