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Microgeography of innovation in the city: Location patterns of innovative firms in Berlin
Rammer, Christian; Kinne, Jan; Blind, Knut - 2016
and measurement approaches used in the Community Innovation Surveys. While controlling for firm size, age and sector, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571073
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The impact of the EU General Data Protection Regulation on innovation in firms
Blind, Knut; Niebel, Crispin Miles; Rammer, Christian - 2022
consensus on whether this new privacy regulation is beneficial or detrimental to innovation. This study provides empirical … evidence on the impact of the GDPR on innovation activities in firms. Exploiting panel data from the German innovation survey …, a difference-in-difference analysis shows that the GDPR stimulated additional innovation activity while shifting the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412968
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The Influence of Strategic Patenting on Companies' Patent Portfolios
Blind, Knut; Cremers, Katrin; Mueller, Elisabeth - 2007
This paper analyses whether strategic motives for patenting influence the characteristics of companies' patent portfolios. We use the number of citations and oppositions to represent these characteristics. The investigation is based on survey and patent data from German companies. We find clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297881
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Commercializing Academic Research: The Quality of Faculty Patenting
Schneider, Cédric; Hussinger, Katrin; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2008
The knowledge produced by academic scientists has been identified as a potential key driver of technological progress. Recent policies in Europe aim at increasing commercially orientated activities in academe. Based on a sample of German scientists across all fields of science we investigate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298080
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The nexus between science and industry: evidence from faculty inventions
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Schneider, Cédric - 2009
Against the background of the so-called European paradox, i.e. the conjecture that EU countries lack the capability to transfer science into commercial innovations, knowledge transfer from academia to industry has been a central issue in policy debates recently. Based on a sample of German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298799
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Why challenge the ivory tower? New evidence on the basicness of academic patents
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Schneider, Cédric - 2009
While often presumed in academic literature and policy discussions there is little empirical evidence showing that academic patents protect more basic inventions than corporate patents. This study provides new evidence on the basicness of academic patents using German professor patents linked to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298800
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The influence of strategic patenting on companies' patent portfolios
Blind, Knut; Cremers, Katrin; Mueller, Elisabeth - 2008
This paper analyses whether strategic motives for patenting influence the characteristics of companies' patent portfolios. We use the number of citations and oppositions to represent these characteristics. The investigation is based on survey and patent data from German companies. We find clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299473
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Are firms withdrawing from basic research? An analysis of firm-level publication behaviour in Germany
Krieger, Bastian; Pellens, Maikel; Blind, Knut; … - 2020
Previous research has expressed concerns about firms engaging less in basic research. We contribute to this debate by studying trends in the scientific publishing activities of firms located in Germany. Our results do not confirm a declining trend in raw numbers with numbers indicating that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389769
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The interplay between product innovation, publishing, patenting and developing standards
Blind, Knut; Krieger, Bastian; Pellens, Maikel - 2022
. While the individual effects of engaging in the listed practices on firm innovation are well-understood, the existing … sample of innovation-active firms from the German Community Innovation Survey, which includes information on the development … of standards, enhanced with information on firms' engagement in patenting and publishing. We find that 26% of innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013273906
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The influence of strategic patenting on companies' patent portfolios
Blind, Knut; Cremers, Katrin; Mueller, Elisabeth - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
This paper analyses whether strategic motives for patenting influence the characteristics of companies' patent portfolios. We use the number of citations and oppositions to represent these characteristics. The investigation is based on survey and patent data from German companies. We find clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533674