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Patent protection, market uncertainty, and R&D investment

Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); Toole, Andrew A. (contributor) - 2006

The real options investment theory shows that greater uncertainty about market revenues reduces current R&D investment by increasing the value of waiting. This paper presents empirical evidence that patent protection mitigates the effect market uncertainty on R&D investment.

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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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New evidence on determinants of IP litigation : a market-based approach

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Criekingen, Kristof van - 2018

, this paper examines the occurrence of IP litigation cases in Belgian firms using the 2013 Community Innovation Survey with … supplemental information on IP litigation and patent portfolios. The rich survey information regarding firms’ general innovation … imitation and incremental innovation. Our results indicate that when controlling for firms’ IP portfolio, the composition of …

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Property rights for innovation : a structural model of patent screening

Matcham, William; Schankerman, Mark - 2023

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Tickets to the global market : first US patent awards and Chinese firm exports

Li, Yao; Manova, Kalina; Sun, Stephen Teng - 2023

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Patent screening, innovation, and welfare

Schankerman, Mark; Schütt, Florian - 2020

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The patent troll : benign middleman or stick-up artist?

Abrams, David S.; Akcigit, Ufuk; Oz, Gokhan; Pearce, Jeremy - 2019

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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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External capital access and new product launch in start-up firms with uncertain intellectual property rights

Heger, Diana; Hussinger, Katrin - 2013

Classical patent literature assumes that patents grant well-defined legal rights to exclude others from practicing an invention. In this scenario, start-up companies benefit from the exclusive right to commercialize patent-protected inventions and the certification effect of patents which...

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Knowledge creates markets : the influence of entrepreneurial support and patent rights on academic entrepreneurship

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Doherr, Thorsten; Hussinger, Katrin; … - 2016 - This version: April 2016

We use an exogenous change in German Federal law to examine how entrepreneurial support and the ownership of patent rights influence academic entrepreneurship. In 2002, the German Federal Government enacted a major reform called Knowledge Creates Markets that set up new infrastructure to...

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