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Determinants of Patent Litigation in Germany
Cremers, Katrin - 2004
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of patent litigation in Germany, based on information from suits filed during the period from 1993 to 1995 at two of the three most important district courts. A control group was formed by selecting a random sample from the population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297398
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Lost in Translation: Empirical Evidence for Liability of Foreignness as a Barrier to Knowledge Spillovers
Sofka, Wolfgang; Schmidt, Tobias - 2006
Entering host country networks of knowledge flows (new competencies, innovative technologies, and lead-market knowledge) is a major rationale of multinational firms for investing abroad. Foreign firms find it difficult to overcome cultural and social barriers which make their foreign engagements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297509
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Non-technological and Technological Innovation: Strange Bedfellows?
Schmidt, Tobias; Rammer, Christian - 2007
Non-technological innovation is an important element of firms? innovation activities that both supplement and … complement technological innovation, i.e. the introduction of new products and new processes. We analyse the spread of … nontechnological innovation in firms, their relation to technological innovation, and their effects to firm performance and success …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297939
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International Cooperation on Innovation: Empirical Evidence for German and Portuguese Firms
Faria, Pedro; Schmidt, Tobias - 2007
innovation activities. Portuguese and German data from the harmonised Community Innovation Survey (CIS III) allow us to compare … innovation cooperation behaviour of private firms in the two countries. Using a bivariate probit model, we show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297950
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An information economics perspective on main bank relationships and firm R&D
Hoewer, Daniel; Schmidt, Tobias; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2011
Information economics has emerged as the primary theoretical lens for framing financing decisions in firm R&D investment. Successful outcomes of R&D projects are either ex-ante impossible to predict or the information is asymmetrically distributed between inventors and investors. As a result,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306611
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Invalid but infringed? An analysis of Germany's bifurcated patent litigation system
Cremers, Katrin; Gaessler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - 2014
We analyze the impact of the probabilistic nature of patents on the functioning of Germany's bifurcated patent litigation system where infringement and validity of a patent are decided independently by different courts. We show that bifurcation creates situations in which a patent is held...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420402
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Invalid but infringed? An analysis of Germany's bifurcated patent litigation system
Cremers, Katrin; Gaessler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
We analyze the impact of the probabilistic nature of patents on the functioning of Germany's bifurcated patent litigation system where infringement and validity of a patent are decided independently by different courts. We show that bifurcation creates situations in which a patent is held...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957677
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An information economics perspective on main bank relationships and firm R&D
Hoewer, Daniel; Schmidt, Tobias; Sofka, Wolfgang - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
Information economics has emerged as the primary theoretical lens for framing financing decisions in firm R&D investment. Successful outcomes of R&D projects are either ex-ante impossible to predict or the information is asymmetrically distributed between inventors and investors. As a result,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323616
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Determinants of Patent Litigation in Germany
Cremers, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of patent litigation in Germany, based on information from suits filed during the period from 1993 to 1995 at two of the three most important district courts. A control group was formed by selecting a random sample from the population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098016
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International Cooperation on Innovation: Empirical Evidence for German and Portuguese Firms
Faria, Pedro; Schmidt, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
innovation activities. Portuguese and German data from the harmonised Community Innovation Survey (CIS III) allow us to compare … innovation cooperation behaviour of private firms in the two countries. Using a bivariate probit model, we show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098236