important for securing long-term competitiveness in both, the developing world and in industry nations. Nevertheless, ensuring … patent data of seven auto component sector firms from Germany with a documented history of contributing cost … potentials of open global innovation networks are under-utilized. Furthermore, the study shows that frugality can (only) be …

a context for component suppliers to ramp up their innovation capabilities as well. For about past 20 years the auto … investigate the prevalent innovation pathways and trajectories in India’s Auto Component Industry. The results indicate that firms … Indian and global companies as well as mergers and acquisitions have accelerated the development of innovation capabilities …

of frugal innovations for Germany. One of the objectives of this project has been to identify innovation pathways that … innovation pathways in Germany with those in India. This paper is based on our investigations of innovation pathways in Indian … and differences in Indian and German innovation pathways, a reference model for frugal innovation pathways is outlined …

of the receiving country. We test the empirical implications of our model using patent data in renewable and fossil … Moment estimator. We show that knowledge transfer through patent duplication increases with the level of IPR protection, but … more sensitive to uncertainty. Commitment to EPs also increases the incentives for patent duplication. The magnitude of the …

innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …