Thickets of partially overlapping patent rights raise costs to secure IPR for innovation. Fragmented IP ownership … capital-intensities among owners of overlapping patents affect propensities to invest in innovation. I find that firms with … small patent portfolios are less likely to invest in innovation if IPR is fragmented. Firms with large patent portfolios are …

Based on data from Germany, this study finds a positive link between using knowledge spillovers from rivals and … innovation success in establishments without R&D but not in establishments with R&D. This supports the hypothesis that rivals …

between innovation and growth in young firms. To this end, this paper develops an augmented YIC categorization that also … includes non-R&D innovators and young firms that conduct R&D but have not yet brought an innovation to the market. Using panel … data from Germany, we examine the growth trajectories of these different types of YICs. Our evidence suggests that non …

This paper discusses the determinants of product innovation in young innovative companies (YICs) by looking at in …-house R&D is linked to the propensity to introduce product innovation both in mature firms and YICs; however, innovation …

In this work, we explore the relations between sales growth and a set of innovation indicators that capture the … different sources, modes and results of the innovative activity undertaken within firms. We exploit a rich panel on innovation …-2011. Standard GMM-panel estimates of the average effect of innovation activities reveal significant and positive effect for internal …

the relation between the introduction of innovation and subsequent firm growth in terms of sales. Recent contributions … examining the returns to innovation on firm performance have stressed the need of going beyond the analysis of the "average … adopt quantile treatment effects (QTE) which allow to estimate the effect of the introduction of innovation by comparing …

This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous … applied to a newly constructed panel for Germany. Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimation techniques for dynamic panel … concentration. In contrast, competition enforces innovation, i.e. sales concentration has a negative impact on R&D. …