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Of Mice and Academics : Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation
Murray, Fiona - 2009
maintain discretion over their research agenda and allow others to build on their discoveries. This paper examines the … granting of control rights to researchers. Within this framework, openness of upstream research does not simply encourage … higher levels of downstream exploitation. It also raises the incentives for additional upstream research by encouraging the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463828
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Procuring Knowledge
Maurer, Stephen M. - 2003
government grants. We argue that there is no single best mechanism for supporting research. Rather, mechanisms can only be … an intramural activity to largely a grant process. Finally, we observe that much research is supported by a hybrid system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468794
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Social Construction of Trust to Protect Ideas and Data in Space Science and Geophysics
Zucker, Lynne G. - 1995
This paper applies a rational action/economic sociology approach to the central organizational theory question of whether action is embedded in pre-formed institutions that are relatively cheap in terms of time and energy, or to what extent action becomes embedded in newly constructed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473494
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Digital Dark Matter and the Economic Contribution of Apache
Greenstein, Shane - 2013
Researchers have long hypothesized that spillovers from government, university, and private company R&D contribute to economic growth, but these contributions may be difficult to measure when they take a non-pecuniary form. The growth of networking devices and the Internet in the 1990s and 2000s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459156
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The dynamic relationship between investments in brand equity and firm profitability : evidence using trademark registrations
Crass, Dirk; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Toole, Andrew A. - 2016
Most marketing practitioners and scholars agree that marketing assets such as brand equity significantly contribute to a firm's financial performance. In this paper, we model brand equity as an unobservable stock that results from up to thirty years of past brand-related investment flows. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418793
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Which firms use trademarks : and why? ; representative firm-level evidence from Germany
Crass, Dirk - 2014
Trademarking firms are more productive, generate higher profits, and have a better survival rate. Trademarking firms are in one word more successful, which might motivate non-trademarking firms to adopt a trademark strategy. But this seems not to be the case. The proportion of trademarking firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010458246
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Patent thickets, licensing and innovative performance
Cockburn, Iain (contributor); MacGarvie, Megan (contributor) - 2008
We examine the relationship between fragmented intellectual property (IP) rights and innovative performance, taking into consideration the role played by in-licensing of IP. Controlling for a variety of firm and market characteristics, we find that firms facing more fragmented IP landscapes are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784653
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R&D collaboration with uncertain intellectual property rights
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Schneider, Cédric - 2011
Patent pendencies create uncertainty in research and development (R&D) collaboration agreements, resulting in a threat …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901848
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Review on the literature of mergers on innovation
Schulz, Norbert (contributor) - 2007
Both M&A and innovation are instruments for growth and competitive advantage. Therefore they are fundamental to each firm's competitive strategy. Usually, both instruments have been studied separately, but much less in conjunction. This is unfortunate as both processes - the process of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003554680
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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