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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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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...

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From scientific research to healthcare markets : empirical essays on the economics of pharmaceutical innovation

Byrski, Dennis - 2021

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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...

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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 …

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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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Invalid but infringed? : an analysis of Germany’s bifurcated patent litigation system

Cremers, Katrin; Gaessler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - 2014

We analyze the impact of the probabilistic nature of patents on the functioning of Germany’s bifurcated patent litigation system where infringement and validity of a patent are decided independently by different courts. We show that bifurcation creates situations in which a patent is held...

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Filling the gap : the consequences of collaborator loss in corporate R&D

Poege, Felix; Gäßler, Fabian; Hoisl, Karin; Harhoff, … - 2022

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Citation Frequency and the Value of Patented Innovation

Vopel, Katrin; Scherer, Frederic M.; Narin, Francis; … - 1997

Through a survey, economic value estimates were obtained on 962 inventions made in the United States and Germany and on which German patent renewal fees were paid to full-term expiration in 1995. A search of subsequent U.S. and German patents yielded a count of citations to those patents....

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To Be Financed or Not … - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing

Haeussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth - 2009

This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncer-tainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...

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