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Patent thickets, licensing and innovative performance
Cockburn, Iain (contributor); MacGarvie, Megan (contributor) - 2009
We examine the relationship between fragmented intellectual property (IP) rights and the innovative performance of firms, taking into consideration the role played by in-licensing of IP. We find that firms facing more fragmented IP landscapes have a higher probability of in-licensing. For firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922582
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Research grants, sources of ideas and the effects on academic research
Hottenrott, Hanna; Lawson, Cornelia - 2012
Based on a sample of research units in science and engineering at German universities, this study reports survey evidence showing that research grants impact research content. Research units that receive funds from industry are more likely to source ideas from the private sector. The higher the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572474
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R&D partnerships and innovation performance : can there be too much of a good thing?
Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes Bento, Cindy - 2015
R&D collaboration facilitates pooling of complementary skills, learning from the partner as well as sharing risks and costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance. Fewer studies addressed potential drawbacks of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393147
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The market value of blocking patent citations
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Leten, Bart - 2011
shown that patents and their quality as measured by citations received by future patents contribute significantly to the … forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of … the art, it can also be cited because it threatens the novelty of patent applications ("blocking citations"). Empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008937317
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Innovation strategies of German firms : the effect of competition and intellectual property protection
Slivko, Olga - 2012
This article analyzes how the perceived effectiveness of intellectual property protection and competitive pressure affect firms' innovation strategy choices, concretely, whether to abstain from innovation, to introduce products that are known in the market but new to the firm (imitation) or to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009686719
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The nexus between science and industry : evidence from faculty inventions
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Schneider, Cédric - 2009
exhibit a higher short-term value in terms of forward citations and a higher potential to block property rights of competitors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846112
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Why challenge the ivory tower? : new evidence on the basicness of academic patents
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Schneider, Cédric - 2009
oppositions are the most important mechanism by which the validity of patents filed at the EPO can be challenged. Controlling for … applied by owners of potentially rival technologies. -- academic inventors ; intellectual property rights ; patent oppositions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846116
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New evidence on determinants of IP litigation : a market-based approach
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Criekingen, Kristof van - 2018
We contribute to the economic literature on patent litigation by taking a new perspective. In the past, scholars mostly focused on specific litigation cases at the patent level and related technological characteristics to the event of litigation. However, observing IP disputes suggests that not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816416
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R&D partnerships and innovation performance : can there be too much of a good thing?
Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes Bento, Cindy - 2014
R&D collaboration facilitates pooling of complementary skills, learning from the partner as well as sharing risks and costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance. Fewer studies addressed potential drawbacks of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440100
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Measuring the Commercial Potential of Science
Masclans, Roger; Hasan, Sharique; Cohen, Wesley M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper uses a large language model to develop an ex-ante measure of the commercial potential of scientific findings. In addition to validating the measure against the typical holdout sample, we validate it externally against 1.) the progression of scientific findings through a major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512116