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The value of disclosing IPR to open standard setting organizations

Hussinger, Katrin; Schwiebacher, Franz - 2013

information and communication technologies. Open standards are developed non-discriminatorily and licensed to anybody at … reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. Little is known about the value of IP contributions to open standards for technology …. The loss of exclusivity to IPR appears to be outweighed by the expected benefits from open standards. Patents appear to …

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Who should pay for certification?

Stahl, Konrad; Strausz, Roland - 2011

Who does, and who should initiate costly certification by a third party under asymmetric quality information, the buyer or the seller? Our answer - the seller - follows from a nontrivial analysis revealing a clear intuition. Buyer-induced certification acts as an inspection device,...

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Money and privacy : Android market evidence

Kummer, Michael E.; Schulte, Patrick - 2014

We study the role of privacy in the market for mobile applications. For such programs used with smartphones and tablet PCs a very important market has emerged. Yet, neither the role of privacy on that market is well understood, nor do we have empirical evidence regarding its role therein. We...

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When private information settles the bill : money and privacy in Google's market for smartphone applications

Kummer, Michael E.; Schulte, Patrick - 2016 - This version: April 2016

We shed light on a money-for-privacy trade-off in the market for smartphone applications ("apps"). Developers offer their apps cheaper in return for greater access to personal information, and consumers choose between lower prices and more privacy. We provide evidence for this pattern using data...

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Adverse selection and moral hazard in anonymous markets

Klein, Tobias J.; Lambertz, Christian; Stahl, Konrad - 2013

We study the effects of improvements in eBay’s rating mechanism on seller exit and continuing sellers’ behavior. Following a large sample of sellers over time, we exploit the fact that the rating mechanism was changed to reduce strategic bias in buyer rating. That improvement did not lead to...

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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...

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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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Patent thickets, licensing and innovative performance

Cockburn, Iain (contributor); MacGarvie, Megan (contributor) - 2009

We examine the relationship between fragmented intellectual property (IP) rights and the innovative performance of firms, taking into consideration the role played by in-licensing of IP. We find that firms facing more fragmented IP landscapes have a higher probability of in-licensing. For firms...

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

Müller, 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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Research grants, sources of ideas and the effects on academic research

Hottenrott, Hanna; Lawson, Cornelia - 2012

Based on a sample of research units in science and engineering at German universities, this study reports survey evidence showing that research grants impact research content. Research units that receive funds from industry are more likely to source ideas from the private sector. The higher the...

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