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Complementary assets, patent thickets and hold-up threats : do transaction costs undermine investments in innovation?
Schwiebacher, Franz - 2012
Innovation is commercialization of technology. Imperfections in markets for technology should leave marks on physical … investments for innovation. Two types of transaction costs could affect innovative investments: royality stacking and hold … ownership fragmentation on investments related to innovation for firms with small patent portfolios. Hold-up threats are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009510154
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Beschäftigungsdynamik in jungen innovativen Unternehmen : empirische Ergebnisse für West-Deutschland
Almus, Matthias; Nerlinger, Eric A. - 1998
Die Ergebnisse der multivariaten Analysen zur Beschäftigungsdynamik und dem Wachstumspotential junger innovativer Unternehmen lassen erkennen, daß junge innovative Unternehmen signifikant höhere Wachstumsraten erzielen als junge Unternehmen mit traditionellen Produkten. Die Abschätzung der...
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Building and blocking : the two faces of technology acquisition
Grimpe, Christoph (contributor);  … - 2008
Gaining access to technological assets and patents, in particular, has long been a major motive and objective for firm acquisitions. On the one hand, patents are used as a building instrument for the acquirer's technology portfolio. On the other hand, patents can be attractive because of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728399
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The export-growth relationship estimating a dose-response function
Fryges, Helmut (contributor) - 2006
The relationship between individual firms’ export behaviour and firm performance has been studied extensively in the economic literature. However, most studies from the field of economics only distinguish between exporting and non-exporting companies, using the firms’ export status as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003319677
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Building and blocking : the two faces of technology acquisition
Grimpe, Christoph; Hussinger, Katrin - 2008
Gaining access to technological assets and patents, in particular, has long been a major motive and objective for firm acquisitions. On the one hand, patents are used as a building instrument for the acquirer's technology portfolio. On the other hand, patents can be attractive because of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003810464
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Inventions under Siege? : the impact of technology competition on licensing
Grimpe, Christoph; Hussinger, Katrin - 2009
In recent years, firms have increasingly contributed to and been confronted with a patent landscape characterized by numerous but marginal inventions, overlapping claims and patent fences. Literature suggests that both the fragmentation of ownership and the threat of a firm's patent applications...
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Firm acquisitions and technology strategy : corporate versus private equity investors
Grimpe, Christoph (contributor);  … - 2007
Over the last few years, worldwide mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have increased sharply both in terms of value and volume. This development has not only been driven by corporate acquirers but also to an increasing extent by private equity investors. In this paper, we analyze differences in...
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Did concentration on core competencies drive merger and acquisition activities in the 1990s? : Empirical evidence for Germany
Hussinger, Katrin (contributor) - 2005
In the context of increasing globalization of markets, merger and acquisition activities in the 1990s are said to be driven by reorganization processes with respect to concentration on firms’ core competencies in order to increase or maintain market power in international markets. This paper...
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Spillovers in networks of user generated content : evidence from 23 natural experiments on Wikipedia
Kummer, Michael E. - 2013
network information, identification through partial overlaps in the network structure fails (e.g. in classrooms). Exogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204042
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How do investors' expectations drive asset prices?
Lüders, Erik; Peisl, Bernhard - 2001
Asset price processes are completely described by information processes and investors´ preferences. In this paper we … stylized facts that look at first hand like financial market anomalies may be explained by an information process with …
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