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The effect of institutional ownership on firm innovation : evidence from Chinese listed firms
Rong, Zhao; Wu, Xiaokai; Boeing, Philipp - 2017
Monitoring by institutional investors can act as an important mechanism to promote firm innovation. By investigating Chinese listed firms' patenting between 2002 and 2011, we find that the presence of institutional investors enhances firm innovation. Consistent with the monitoring view, we...
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Patents as quality signals? : the implications for financing constraints on R&D
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hall, Bronwyn H.; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2014
to financing constraints, but also do not seem to benefit from a patent quality signal. …
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Corporate taxation and location of intangible assets : patents vs. trademarks
Dudar, Olena; Voget, Johannes - 2016
within a company group. However, the previous literature has rather focused on studying the impact of taxation on patent … employ data on European and US patent and trademark applications in the period of 1996-2012 and estimate a multinomial logit …
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Attenuation bias when measuring inventive performance
Zwick, Thomas; Frosch, Katharina - 2016
Most previous results on determinants of inventive performance are biased because inventive performance is measured with error. This measurement error causes attenuation bias. More specifically, for example age and education as drivers of patenting success have biased coefficients and too high...
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From less promising to green? : technological opportunities and their role in (green) ICT innovation
Cecere, Grazia; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Schulte, Patrick - 2015
do so, we construct a firm-level panel data set for the years 1992-2009 combining patent data from the European Patent …
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Determinanten des technischen Fortschritts auf Branchenebene : ein Überblick
Harabi, Najib - 1997
Die heutige intensive Auseinandersetzung mit dem Fragenkomplex "technischer Fortschritt" hat verschiedene historische Wurzeln und entstammt verschiedenen Forschungsrichtungen. Technischer Fortschritt wird heute von den meisten Ökonomen als ökonomisches Phänomen anerkannt, dem volle...
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Citation frequency and the value of patented innovation
Harhoff, Dietmar; Narin, Francis; Scherer, Frederic M.; … - 1997
which German patent renewal fees were paid to full-term expiration in 1995. A search of subsequent U.S. and German patents … allowed to expire before their full term. The higher an invention's economic value estimate was, the more the relevant patent …
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Exploring the tail of patented invention value distributions
Harhoff, Dietmar; Scherer, Frederic M.; Vopel, Katrin - 1997
We explore the tail of patented invention value distributions by using value estimates obtained directly from patent …
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Protecting innovation through patents and trade secrets : determinants and performance impacts for firms with a single innovation
Crass, Dirk; Garcia-Valero, Francisco; Pitton, Francesco; … - 2016
This paper tests a number of hypotheses on the use and effectiveness of patents and trade secrets designed to protect innovation. While previous studies have often considered patents and trade secrets as substitutes for one another, we investigate the complementary role of the two protection...
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Measuring patent quality and national technological capacity in cross-country comparison
Boeing, Philipp; Müller, Elisabeth - 2016
China recently surpassed the USA as the greatest global source of patent applications. However, without internationally … comparable measures of patent quality it remains questionable whether China's patent expansion constitutes the rise of a new … internationally comparable, quality-adjusted figures for applications made under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). We show that …
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