intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I … estimate knowledge spillovers through outsourcing relationships between German firms, measured by the number of those firms …

innovation for less than the full length of the patent and that royalty contracts can be used to overcome a time …

innovation for less than the full length of the patent and that royalty contracts can be more profitable than fixed-fee licensing …