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Intellectual property infringements due to R&D abroad? A comparative analysis between firms with international and domestic R&D activities
Schmiele, Anja - 2010
This paper aims at analysing the risk of intellectual property (IP) infringements by competitors from abroad and in particular whether this risk is higher for international innovating firms. We distinguish three different types of IP infringements from abroad: the usage of firms' technical...
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The nexus between science and industry : evidence from faculty inventions
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Schneider, Cédric - 2009
scientific assignee and which are owned by corporate entities. Our findings suggest that faculty patents assigned to corporations …. Faculty patents assigned to academic inventors or to public research institutions, in contrast, are more complex, more basic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846112
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Why challenge the ivory tower? : new evidence on the basicness of academic patents
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Schneider, Cédric - 2009
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 … oppositions are the most important mechanism by which the validity of patents filed at the EPO can be challenged. Controlling for …
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Patent and Publication Activities of German Professors : An Empirical Assessment of Their Co-Activity
Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2008
The growing importance of technology relevant non-publication output of university research has come into the focus of policy-makers' interest. A fierce debate arose on possible negative consequences of the increasing commercialization of science, as it may come along with a reduction in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773511
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Need for Speed? Exploring the Relative Importance of Patents and Utility Models Among German Firms
Heikkilä, Jussi - 2018
Despite the wide use of two-tiered patent systems (patents and utility models (UMs)), there is little empirical … firms rank them relative to patents. We offer such an analysis using data from Germany. We find that larger firms are more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012934185
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Heterogeneity of Patenting Activity and its Implications for Scientific Research
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Glänzel, Wolfgang; Hussinger, Katrin - 2013
not account for heterogeneity of patenting activities ranging from university patents to corporate patents. While the … publishing distinguishing between different types of patents for a large sample of professors active in Germany. Our results show … that, while university patents as well as patents assigned to not-for-profit institutions complement publication quantity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050429
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...
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Host Country Contingencies on Knowledge Protection Strategies of Multinational Firms – Bring a Knife to a Gunfight?
Shehu, Edlira - 2009
both market-based (e.g. secrecy, lead time) as well as legal knowledge protection strategies (e.g. patents, trademarks) of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160407
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Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data
Jirjahn, Uwe; Kraft, Kornelius - 2006
We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers exert no such independent influence on drastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297531
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An empirical test of the asymmetric models on innovative activity : who invests more into R&D - the incumbent or the challenger?
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2000
The theoretical discussion concerning the question whether the incumbent or the (potential) entrant invests more into R&D has attracted considerable interest. This paper reports the results of an empirical study on this question using data of about 3500 German firms over the years 1992 to 1995....
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