Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 8,426
Cover Image
Engines of Growth : Domestic and Foreign Sources of Innovation
Eaton, Jonathan; Kortum, Samuel S. - 2012
}. We present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076313
Cover Image
Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742945
Cover Image
Patent thickets, licensing and innovative performance
Cockburn, Iain (contributor); MacGarvie, Megan (contributor) - 2009
higher innovative performance for firms that do not in-license. Furthermore, the effects of fragmentation on innovation also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922582
Cover Image
Innovation strategies of German firms : the effect of competition and intellectual property protection
Slivko, Olga - 2012
affect firms' innovation strategy choices, concretely, whether to abstain from innovation, to introduce products that are … known in the market but new to the firm (imitation) or to introduce market novelties (innovation). Using a sample of 1253 … effectiveness is low or medium, both innovation and imitation are enhanced, whereas if it is high, only innovation is enhanced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009686719
Cover Image
Access to Intellectual Property for Innovation : Evidence on Problems and Coping Strategies from German Firms
Müller, Elisabeth - 2015
innovation. We present novel data on the frequency with which innovative German firms encounter problems with access to … intellectual property (IP) for innovation. While only a small percentage of all firms report halting or not starting innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038411
Cover Image
Quantifying Changes in Innovation : Patenting Activity and Ipr Regimes
Sanyal, Paroma - 2015
This paper develops a sequential application-grant framework to analyze competing explanations for the two U.S. patent surges during the mid-eighties and early nineties: (a) the ¿friendly court¿ hypothesis argues that legislative changes in the 1980s lowered the cost of patenting and led to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071213
Cover Image
The nexus between science and industry: evidence from faculty inventions
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Schneider, Cédric - 2009
Against the background of the so-called European paradox, i.e. the conjecture that EU countries lack the capability to transfer science into commercial innovations, knowledge transfer from academia to industry has been a central issue in policy debates recently. Based on a sample of German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298799
Cover Image
Why challenge the ivory tower? New evidence on the basicness of academic patents
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Schneider, Cédric - 2009
While often presumed in academic literature and policy discussions there is little empirical evidence showing that 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298800
Cover Image
The Multiple Dimensions of Intellectual Property Infringement in the 3D Printing Era
Nielsen, Jane L - 2017
3D printing is a technology that has the potential to revolutionise manufacturing as we know it. While 3D printing is becoming mainstream, few consumers of printing services have the capacity to undertake their own printing. Around the technology, a service industry is burgeoning, as consumers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955118
Cover Image
To be financed or not ... : the role of patents for venture capital financing
Häussler, 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861082