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Institutionalized incentives for ingenuity : patent value and the German Employees' Inventions Act

Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin - 2006

Germany is one of few countries in which the monetary compensation for inventors is not only determined by negotiations between employer and employee-inventor, but also by relatively precise legal provisions. In this paper, we describe the characteristics of the German Employees' Inventions Act...

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To be financed or not ... : the role of patents for venture capital financing

Häussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth - 2009

This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncer-tainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...

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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier : Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2015

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to product innovation …

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Everything you always wanted to know about inventors (but never asked) : evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey

Giuri, Paola; Mariani, Myriam; Brusoni, Stefano; … - 2006

Based on a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patented inventions, this paper provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the motivations to invent, and the actual use and...

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What are the channels for technology sourcing? : panel data evidence from German companies

Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth; Van Reenen, John - 2012

Innovation processes within corporations increasingly tap into international technology sources, yet little is known … about the relative contribution of different types of innovation channels. We investigate the effectiveness of different …

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Filling the Gap : The Consequences of Collaborator Loss in Corporate R&D

Poege, Felix; Gaessler, 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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