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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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Bargaining Failure and Freedom to Operate : Re-Evaluating the Effect of Patents on Cumulative Innovation
Gaessler, Fabian - 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/10012863982
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014503038
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Profiting from Voluntary Information Spillovers : How Users Benefit by Freely Revealing Their Innovations
Harhoff, Dietmar; Henkel, Joachim; von Hippel, Eric A. - 2012
Empirical studies of innovation have found that end users frequently develop important product and process innovations … their innovations to competing users and to manufacturers. Rival users are thus in a position to reproduce the innovation in …-house and benefit from using it, and manufacturers are in a position to refine the innovation and sell it to all users …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014052849
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Die Evolution der bundesdeutschen Forschungs- und Technologiepolitik: Rückblick und Bestandsaufnahme
Fier, Andreas; Harhoff, Dietmar - 2001
In Deutschland beanspruchen gleich zwei Ressorts, das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) sowie das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi) die Zuständigkeit für die deutsche Innovationspolitik. Dieses für den Bund offensichtlich bedeutsame Politikfeld...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297798
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Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Inventors (But Never Asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey
Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin - 2006
Based on a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patented inventions, this paper provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the motivations to invent, and the actual use and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427735
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Innovationen auf Bestellung? Was von einer stärkeren Nachfrageorientierung in der Innovationspolitik zu halten ist
Dauchert, Helge; Harhoff, Dietmar; Llerena, Patrick; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 66 (2013) 05, pp. 3-19
, Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation, führen dieses Interesse an öffentlicher Beschaffung als innovationsförderliches …-amerikanischen Small-Business-Innovation-Research-Programms – innovative Lösungen von der Idee bis zur Marktreife (und einer etwaigen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011693467
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Economy and Civil Society: How Innovation Drives Change
Harhoff, Dietmar - In: CESifo Forum 16 (2015) 3, pp. 38-43
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696190
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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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Innovationsanreize in einem strukturellen Oligopolmodell
Harhoff, Dietmar - 1997 - Revidiert: Februar 1997
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 … affect the innovation activity of the firm. Specification tests derived from the theoretical model do not lead to a rejection …
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