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Research cooperation within and across regional boundaries : does innovation policy add anything?
Marzucchi, Alberto; Antonioli, Davide; Montresor, Sandro - 2012
The paper aims to show how policy makers can stimulate firms' cooperation with research organisations in innovation. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011982351
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The power of individual-level drivers of inventive performance
Zwick, Thomas; Frosch, Katharina; Hoisl, Karin; … - 2015
Based on an established theoretical framework of the drivers of inventive performance, the so-called KSAO (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other) factors, this paper seeks to explain empirically the performance of inventors throughout their careers. We combine survey information spanning the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381965
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Institutionalized incentives for ingenuity : patent value and the German Employees' Inventions Act
Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin - 2006
Germany is one of few countries in which the monetary compensation for inventors is not only determined by negotiations between employer and employee-inventor, but also by relatively precise legal provisions. In this paper, we describe the characteristics of the German Employees' Inventions Act...
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From scientific research to healthcare markets : empirical essays on the economics of pharmaceutical innovation
Byrski, Dennis - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816525
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Design, innovation and performance in European firms
Montresor, Sandro; Vezzani, Antonio - 2017
, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity … associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011989252
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Filling the gap : the consequences of collaborator loss in corporate R&D
Poege, Felix; Gäßler, Fabian; Hoisl, Karin; Harhoff, … - 2022
We examine how collaborator loss affects knowledge workers in corporate R&D. We argue that such a loss affects the remaining collaborators not only by reducing their team-specific capital (as argued in the prior literature) but also by increasing their bargaining power over the employer, who is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414730
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Absorptive capacity, innovation cooperation and human-capital : evidence from 3 European countries
Franco, Chiara; Marzucchi, Alberto; Montresor, Sandro - 2012
. Innovation cooperation is recognised as one of its antecedents, along with R&D, but with different possible outcomes, depending … on innovation. The empirical application, carried out on about 10,500 firms located in 3 EU countries (i.e. Germany … firm's AC providing it occurs within the national boundaries. The transformation of AC into actual innovation is favoured …
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Do KIBS make manufacturing more innovative? : an empirical investigation for four European countries
Ciriaci, Daria; Montresor, Sandro; De Palma, Daniela - 2013
The paper aims at estimating the innovation impact of the vertical integration of knowledge intensive business services … manufacturing innovation is then estimated. By merging OECD data on sectoral R&D and input-output tables with sectoral patent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011983080
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Bargaining failure and freedom to operate : re-evaluating the effect of patents on cumulative innovation
Gaessler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar; Sorg, Stefan - 2019
We investigate the causal effect of patent rights on cumulative innovation, using large-scale data that approximate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139072
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Patents, freedom to operate, and follow-on innovation : evidence from post-grant opposition
Gäßler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar; Sorg, Stefan; … - 2024
We study the blocking effect of patents on follow-on innovation by others. We posit that follow-on innovation requires … freedom to operate (FTO), which firms typically obtain through a license from the patentee holding the original innovation …. Where licensing fails, follow-on innovation is blocked unless firms gain FTO through patent invalidation. Using large …
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