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Patents, data exclusivity, and the development of new drugs
Gaessler, Fabian; Wagner, Stefan - 2019
Pharmaceutical firms typically enjoy market exclusivity for new drugs from concurrent protection of the underlying invention (through patents) and the clinical trials data submitted for market approval (through data exclusivity). Patent invalidation during drug development renders data...
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Information leakage, imitation, and the patent system
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Criekingen, Kristof van - 2021 - This version: August 2021
From a firm’s perspective two competing forces are driving the decision to invest in innovation. On the one hand …, innovative performance is an important driver of profitability and growth. On the other hand, investments in innovation suffer …
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The disciplinary effect of post-grant review : causal evidence from European patent opposition
Nagler, Markus; Sorg, Stefan - 2019
We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent Office on affected inventors' subsequent patenting. We exploit exogenous variation in invalidation by leveraging the participation of a patent's original examiner in the...
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Firm leadership and innovative performance : evidence from seven EU countries
Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2001
This paper considers the effect of different firm leadership on the innovative performance of firms from seven EU countries. We investigate whether owner-led or manager-led firms achieve a larger share of their turnover with product innovations. Economic theory does not propose clear answers to...
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Markets for technology in Europe : mapping demand and its drivers
Grimpe, Christoph; Sofka, Wolfgang; Schulz, Philipp; … - 2019
Functioning markets for technology are an important determinant for the type, scope and distribution of innovation … sectoral pattern of innovation and the distance of a country's industry to the global technological frontier. We explore these … dimensions based on longitudinal industry-level data from the Community Innovation Survey. We find that the demand on markets for …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389011
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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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Long-term health insurance : theory meets evidence
Atal, Juan Pablo; Fang, Hanming; Karlsson, Martin; … - 2021
To insure policyholders against contemporaneous health expenditure shocks and future reclassification risk, long-term health insurance constitutes an alternative to community-rated short-term contracts with an individual mandate. In this paper, we study the German long-term health insurance...
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Motivated health risk denial and preventative health care investments
Schwardmann, Peter - 2017
People deny health risks, invest too little in disease prevention, and are highly sensitive to the price of preventative health care, especially in developing countries. Moreover, private sector R and D spending on developing-country diseases is almost non-existent. To explain these empirical...
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Hospital capacity reporting in Germany during COVID-19
Reif, Simon; Schubert, Sabrina - 2023
During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals faced a unique predicament. Hospital care was urgently needed and society took efforts to prevent overwhelming hospitals. However, hospitals in case-based reimbursement schemes faced financial problems because of cancelled elective care visits and...
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