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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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The link between firms' innovation decision and the business cycle : an empirical analysis

Heger, Diana (contributor) - 2004

The sensitivity of innovation activities with respect to the business cycle is often assumed to be small. In this paper … the hypothesis on cyclical dependence of innovation activities is tested for firms in the German manufacturing, and … additionally for SMEs. To this end firms’ innovation decisions are considered. The decision to innovate in one period is modelled …

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Implications of uncertain patent rights for German start-ups' commercialisation activities and access to external capital

Heger, Diana; Hussinger, Katrin - In: Industry and innovation 24 (2017) 7, pp. 753-773

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Money for novelty : the role of venture capital investments for innovation in young technology-based firms

Heger, Diana - 2013

This paper examines the role of venture capital on a firm's innovation activities by using a data set of German … technology-based firms founded between 1996 and 2005. Innovation is proxied by patent counts and an index of innovativeness which …

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The effect of broadband infrastructure on entrepreneurial activities : the case of Germany

Heger, Diana; Koomen, Miriam; Veith, Tobias - 2011

This paper investigates whether the local infrastructure favours entrepreneurial activities. Besides the physical and knowledge infrastructure we take into account a county’s broadband availability by building an index which accounts for county-related specificities. We find that broadband...

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A look at both sides of the coin : investigating the protective and the disclosure effect of patenting

Heger, Diana; Zaby, Alexandra K. - 2013

This paper presents a theoretical and empirical investigation of the two basic effects of patenting: the positive effect of temporarily mitigating competition, and the negative effect of mandatory disclosure of a patent application. Providing empirical evidence for the presented theoretical...

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