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Accessibility to R&D and Patent Production
Gråsjö, Urban - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005
often is the case with R&D outputs, the regional distribution of patents is highly skewed with influential outliers. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644933
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From Utility to Freedom: The Co-evolution of Technology and Institutions in the History of the Swedish Moped 1952–75
Blomkvist, Pär; Emanuel, Martin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010
The first of July 1952, the moped was legislatively excluded from existing restrictions for heavier two-wheeled motorized vehicles. A driver/owner of a “bicycle with auxiliary engine” – this was the original denomination of the vehicle – thus needed no registration, driver’s license or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008626067
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Impact of Economic Crises on Innovation Activity: Firm Level Evidence from Patent Data
Martinsson, Gustav; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
Based on data from of 2,700 Swedish manufacturing firms, observed through the period 1997-2005, this paper shows that internal finance resources, measured by cash-flow, affect the propensity to apply for a patent as well as the number of patent applications. From a business cycle perspective,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506820
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Internal Finance and Patents - evidence from firm-level data
Martinsson, Gustav; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
financially constrained. Our results suggest that some firms reduce or stop applying for patents during periods of declining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008546345
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Key Characteristics of the Small Innovative Firm
Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
Despite broad agreement on the strategic role of SMEs (Small and Medium Sized Enterprises) in industrial renewal processes, the lack of systematized and comprehensive information on the nature and level of small innovative firms is striking. This bias is partly explained by an empirical shadow...
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Small Nordic Enterprises - developing IPR in global competition
Iversen, Eric; Mäkinen, Iiro; Lööf, Hans; Oh, Dong-Hyun - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
This paper presents the results of a pan-Nordic study to explore how small and medium-size enterprises use IPR. It is a pilot study that demonstrates a commonly developed approach designed to overcome the barriers that hinder study of IPR use by small firms. The pilot study focuses particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004988938
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A Portrait of the Innovative Firm as a Small Patenting Entrepreneur
Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008
This paper examines small innovative entrepreneurs by contrasting patenting firms against non-patenting firms. The empirical analysis is based on new and unique data on internal attributes, location and international trade characteristics for over 20 000 manufacturing firms in Sweden with 1-25...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644994
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Heterogeneous Distributions of Firms Sustained by Innovation Dynamics – a model with an empirical application
Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010
This paper develops a framework to appreciate the observed heterogeneity of firm size distributions and the entry and exit of products and firms associated with it. It is based on a model where new products are introduced by innovating firms in a quasi-temporal setting of monopolistic...
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Firm Maturity and Product Processes R&D in Swedish Manufacturing Firms
Nyström, Kristina - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005
This paper investigates the commonly debated question about innovations and firm age. Are innovations made by incumbent firms, and does innovation therefore constitute a barrier to entry, or is innovation a way for new firms to successfully compete? The paper further investigates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644912
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THE FATE OF PATENTS: AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF PATENTS AS IPO SIGNALS OF REPUTATIONAL ADVANTAGE
Basir, Nada; Beyhaghi, Mehdi; Mohammadi, Ali - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014
Drawing on the reputation literature and signaling theory, this article builds on work that looks at patents as … reputation signals. We build a multi-industry database of patents that expire due to lack of maintenance fee payments and test … for a relationship between these patents and the firm’s IPO date. We find a significant and positive relationship between …
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