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Knowledge and its economic characteristics: a conceptual clarification

Witt, Ulrich; Brökel, Tom; Brenner, Thomas - 2007

This paper discusses several features of knowledge that are often considered crucial for characterizing the economic significance of knowledge: whether it is overtly accessible or tacit, whether it can be or is encoded or not, and whether it has public or private good character. It is argued...

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The relationship among innovative output, productivity, and profitability: a test comparing USPTO and EPO data

Santarelli, Enrico; Lotti, Francesca - 2007

already under way respectively at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO). For most … this purpose, we use a unique data set which collects balance sheet items and patent information from EPO and USPTO. After … only patents with the EPO, along with larger firm size, have a statistically significant relationship with productivity …

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A concordance between industries and technologies: matching the technological fields of the Patentatlas to the German industry classification

Broekel, Tom - 2007

The Patentatlas by Greif and Schmiedl (2002) represents an important source for patent data in Germany. Its use for industry-specific studies is however problematic because the correct assignment of patent data classified by technological fields to commonly used industry classifications is...

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Financial signalling by innovative nascent entrepreneurs

Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - 2009

External finance is central for nascent entrepreneurs, people in the process of starting new ventures. We argue that nascent entrepreneurs use patents and prototypes in order to signal their ability to appropriate the returns from their innovation as well as the project´s feasibility. Our...

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Creative industries, new business formation and regional economic growth

Piergiovanni, Roberta; Carree, Martin A.; Santarelli, Enrico - 2009

The present study explores the impact exerted by a series of factors and processes including creativity, IPR activities, new business formation and the provision of amenities on economic growth for 103 Italian provinces (NUTS 3) over the period between 2001 and 2006. Provincial growth rates are...

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Intellectual property rights and ex-post transaction costs: the case of open and closed source software

von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 2008

The economic characteristics of software and transaction costs explain, why closed source and open source software co-exist. It is about the efficient use of a non- and anti-scarce resource. But because of ex-post transaction costs that lead to information asymmetries, some property rights...

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Geographic allocation of OSS contributions: the role of institutions and culture

von Engelhardt, Sebastian; Freytag, Andreas - 2009

So-called open source software (OSS) is marked by free access to the software and its source code. Copyright-based OSS licenses permit users to use, change, improve and redistribute the software, which is designed and developed in a public, collaborative manner. High quality OSS products like...

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Institutions, culture, and open source

von Engelhardt, Sebastian; Freytag, Andreas - 2010

The paper analyzes the impact of institutional and cultural factors on a remarkable economic activity: the production of so-called open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the software and its source code. Copyright-based OSS licenses permit users to use, change, improve and...

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Quality competition or quality cooperation? License-type and the strategic nature of open source vs. closed source business models

von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 2010

In the ICT sector, product-software is an important factor for the quality of the products (e.g. cell phones). In this context, open source software enables firms to avoid quality competition as they can cooperate on quality without an explicit contract. The economics of open source (OS) versus...

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A theoretical framework for understanding university inventors and patenting

Göktepe-Hultén, Devrim - 2008

This paper develops theoretical standpoints to investigate and analyse university inventors and patenting activities. Although the studies on academic entrepreneurship and university patenting have substantially increased, first there have not been enough studies on individual inventors and...

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