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Heterogeneity of patenting activity and its implications for scientific research

Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); … - 2007

The increasing commercialization of university discoveries has initiated a controversy on the impacts for future scientific research. It has been argued that an increasing orientation towards commercialization may have a negative impact on more fundamental research efforts in science. Several...

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Concentration on the few? : R&D and innovation in German firms 2001 to 2013

Rammer, Christian; Schubert, Torben - 2016

Innovation activities in the German enterprise sector showed two opposing trends over the past two decades: While total … innovation expenditures grew substantially, the number of firms conducting innovation activities fell sharply. Innovation … expenditures hence concentrate on fewer firms. In this paper we analyse the evolution of firms' innovation and R&D activities …

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External capital access and new product launch in start-up firms with uncertain intellectual property rights

Heger, Diana; Hussinger, Katrin - 2013

Classical patent literature assumes that patents grant well-defined legal rights to exclude others from practicing an invention. In this scenario, start-up companies benefit from the exclusive right to commercialize patent-protected inventions and the certification effect of patents which...

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Drivers and effects of internationalising innovation by SMEs

Rammer, Christian (contributor); Schmiele, Anja (contributor) - 2008

This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based … on a large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. We look at different stages of the innovation process … resources, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation …

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Formal and informal technology transfer from academia to industry : complementarity effects and innovation performance

Grimpe, Christoph (contributor); … - 2008

results confirm a complementary relationship: using both transfer channels contributes to higher innovation performance. The …

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Drivers and effects of internationalising innovation by SMEs

Rammer, Christian (contributor); Schmiele, Anja (contributor) - 2008 - Rev. version

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Innovation, competition and incentives for R&D

Wörter, Martin; Rammer, Christian; Arvanitis, Spyridon - 2010

This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a … results for both countries. Innovation output in t-1 as measured by the sales share of innovative products is positively …&D investments in t+1, while high substitutability exerts negative incentives for future R&D investment. -- Innovation ; R …

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Corporate science in the patent system : an analysis of the semiconductor technology

Della Malva, Antonio; Hussinger, Katrin - 2010

Corporate scientific publications are often presented as a strategic means for firms to create prior art with the objective to prevent others from patenting related inventions. This presumes that corporate publications enter the pool of prior art which is relevant to judge the novelty of patent...

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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...

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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...

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