technology competition increases which is in line with the argument that licensing can mitigate hold-up problems in technology … markets. -- Licensing ; blocking patents ; discrete and complex technologies ; technology competition …

The contribution of New Technology-based Firms (NTBFs) to long term economic development is at the centre of a …

to detect the impact of technology and market relatedness on the choice of the merging partner. Results from a …

percentage points for females in West, and eight and 14 percentage points, respectively, in East Germany. We find that neither …

War mit der Vereinigung Deutschlands ein starker Anstieg in der Mitgliederzahl der Gewerkschaften in Deutschland …

Despite the apparent stability of the wage bargaining institutions in West Germany, aggregate union membership has been …

Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace …-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of Chamberlain … differences between East and West Germany as well as the corresponding changes in NUD over time. Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions …

acquisitions. On the one hand, patents are used as a building instrument for the acquirer's technology portfolio. On the other hand …-based view of the firm, we analyze the importance of these two faces of technology acquisition for the valuation of a target firm …'s patents, especially if blocking patents are in technology fields related to the acquiring firm's patent portfolio. Our results …

acquisitions. On the one hand, patents are used as a building instrument for the acquirer's technology portfolio. On the other hand …-based view of the firm, we analyze the importance of these two faces of technology acquisition for the valuation of a target firm …'s patents, especially if blocking patents are in technology fields related to the acquiring firm's patent portfolio. Our results …

This paper investigates the motive of pre-empting technology competition through mergers and acquisitions (M … create entry barriers in technology markets. Our results show significant evidence that firms engage in horizontal M&A to pre …-empt competition in technology markets. …