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Quantity or quality? Collaboration strategies in research and development and incentives to patent

Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes-Bento, Cindy - 2012

This study shows for a large sample of R&D-active manufacturing firms that collaborative R&D has a positive effect on firms' patenting in terms of both quantity and quality. When distinguishing between alliances that aim at joint creation of new knowledge and alliances that aim at exchange of...

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Innovation strategies of German firms: The effect of competition and intellectual property protection

Slivko, Olga - 2012

affect firms' innovation strategy choices, concretely, whether to abstain from innovation, to introduce products that are … known in the market but new to the firm (imitation) or to introduce market novelties (innovation). Using a sample of 1253 … effectiveness is low or medium, both innovation and imitation are enhanced, whereas if it is high, only innovation is enhanced. …

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Do trademarks diminish the substitutability of products in innovative knowledge-intensive services?

Crass, Dirk; Schwiebacher, Franz - 2013

Trademarks are often supposed to reduce substitutability and imitability of product innovations. Using German CIS data for 2010, we provide empirical evidence that trademarking firms assess easy product substitutability as less characteristic for their competitive environment. This is...

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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...

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Is Silence Golden? Patents versus Secrecy at the Firm Level

Hussinger, Katrin - 2004

In the 1990s, patenting schemes changed in many respects: upcoming new technologies accelerated the shift from price competition towards competition based on technical inventions, a worldwide surge in patenting took place, and the ?patent thicket? arose as a consequence of strategic patenting....

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Citation Frequency and the Value of Patented Innovation

Vopel, Katrin; Scherer, Frederic M.; Narin, Francis; … - 1997

Through a survey, economic value estimates were obtained on 962 inventions made in the United States and Germany and on which German patent renewal fees were paid to full-term expiration in 1995. A search of subsequent U.S. and German patents yielded a count of citations to those patents....

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Patent Thickets, Licensing and Innovative Performance

Müller, Elisabeth; MacGarvie, Megan J.; Cockburn, Iain M. - 2008

, but only for firms that engage in in-licensing and only for product innovation. The relationship between fragmentation and …

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Patent thickets, licensing and innovative performance

Cockburn, Iain M.; MacGarvie, Megan J.; Müller, Elisabeth - 2009

higher innovative performance for firms that do not in-license. Furthermore, the effects of fragmentation on innovation also …

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Intellectual property infringements due to R&D abroad? A comparative analysis between firms with international and domestic R&D activities

Schmiele, Anja - 2010

analysis rests on the German data from the Europe-wide Community Innovation Survey (CIS). We use a unique data set of about 900 … domestic innovation activities the later wave reports IP infringements. In a second analysis, the likelihood of infringements … from innovation host countries and no innovation host countries abroad is examined. Before the empirical analysis, an …

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Entrepreneurs from low-skilled immigrant groups in knowledge-intensive industries - company characteristics, survival and innovative performance

Mueller, Elisabeth - 2011

This paper analyzes how companies of immigrant entrepreneurs in knowledgeintensive industries differ from companies of native entrepreneurs with respect to start-up characteristics, firm survival and innovative performance. I focus on immigrants from the 'recruitment countries' of south and...

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