&D Collaboration ; Knowledge Exchange ; Patents ; Innovation ; Count Data Models … patenting, our results further suggest that knowledge creation alliances lead to patents that are filed to protect valuable …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … collaborative R&D projects in total R&D projects is associated with a higher probability of product innovation and with a higher … market success of new products. While we can confirm previous findings in terms of gains for innovation performance, we also …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … collaborative R&D projects in total R&D projects is associated with a higher probability of product innovation and with a higher … market success of new products. While we can confirm previous findings in terms of gains for innovation performance, we also …

innovation. While previous studies have often considered patents and trade secrets as substitutes for one another, we investigate …This paper tests a number of hypotheses on the use and effectiveness of patents and trade secrets designed to protect … the complementary role of the two protection methods. We identify protection strategies for single innovation firms and …

Monitoring by institutional investors can act as an important mechanism to promote firm innovation. By investigating … innovation. Consistent with the monitoring view, we further find that (1) the effect of institutional investors on firm patenting … robust when innovation quality is examined. …

The paper develops an oligopoly model of innovation and applies it to data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel. The … complexity, etc. are important determinants of overall innovation expenditures, but not for R&D specifically. If legal protection … mechanisms (such as patents) are effective, they exert a positive effect on R&D spending. Firm-specific financing conditions also …

Against the background of the so-called "European paradox", i.e. the conjecture that EU countries lack the capability … policy debates recently. Based on a sample of German scientists we investigate which academic inventions are patented by a … scientific assignee and which are owned by corporate entities. Our findings suggest that faculty patents assigned to corporations …

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 patent opposition data from the European Patent Office (EPO). Patent …

Productivity ; University Research ; Patents ; Research Funding ; Technology Transfer …University research provides valuable inputs to industrial innovation. It is therefore not surprising that private … subsequent years. For patents, we find that industry funding increases their quality measured by patent citations. -- Scientist …

Productivity ; Research Funding ; Academic Patents ; Technology Transfer …University research provides valuable inputs to industrial innovation. It is therefore not surprising that private …. For patents, we find that industry funding increases their quality measured by patent citations. -- Scientific …