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The relationship among innovative output, productivity, and profitability: a test comparing USPTO and EPO data
Santarelli, Enrico; Lotti, Francesca - 2007
The aim of this paper is to test whether patent-based indicators are still reliable measures of innovativeness in light … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263794
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274001
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Why and how do scientists commercialize their research?: towards a typology of inventors
Göktepe-Hultén, Devrim - 2008
Incentives and assistance provided by TTOs, university policies, patent legislation and scientific disciplines are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274008
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Technology transfer offices and university patenting: a review
von Ledebur, Sidonia - 2008
This policy paper on science-industry technology transfer has four emphases: the rationale of recent changes in German science policy, the contribution of diverse transfer channels to economic development as well as the role of IPR in that context, the differences in the institutional framework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274510
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Inventor networks in emerging key technologies: Information technology vs. semiconductors
Graf, Holger - 2009
We analyze the development of the German knowledge base measured by co-classifications of patents by German inventors and relate this technological development to changes in the structure of the underlying inventor networks. Our central hypothesis states that technologies which become more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267111
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263801
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266651
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University patenting in Germany before and after 2002: What role did the professors' privilege play?
von Ledebur, Sidonia; Buenstorf, Guido; Hummel, Martin - 2009
patent experience of inventors and universities further help explain the variance in ownership patterns. Both experienced and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274526
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The Relationship among innovative Output, Productivity, and Profitability.A test comparing USPTO and EPO data
Santarelli, Enrico; Lotti, Francesca - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
The aim of this paper is to test whether patent-based indicators are still reliable measures of innovativeness in light … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864587
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What determines the efficiency of regional innovation systems?
Fritsch, Michael; Slavtchev, Viktor - 2007
We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function. This function relates private sector research and development (R&D) activity in a region to the number of inventions that have been registered by residents of that region....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263783