innovation. While previous studies have often considered patents and trade secrets as substitutes for one another, we investigate … the complementary role of the two protection methods. We identify protection strategies for single innovation firms and … for the same innovation or for different innovations. Employing firm panel data from Germany, we find fairly few …

quality, follow-on innovation. Winning a first patent boosts a startup’s subsequent growth and innovation by facilitating ….S. Patent Office since 2001, we find that startups that win the patent “lottery” by drawing lenient examiners have, on average …, 55% higher employment growth and 80% higher sales growth five years later. Patent winners also pursue more, and higher …

This work investigates the relationship between proxies of innovation activities, such as patents and trademarks, and …

This work investigates the relationship between proxies of innovation activities, such as patents and trademarks, and … provide a rather complete picture of the innovation activities of Italian firms, in terms of patents and trademarks, and we …

remaining career. We use European patent data for a period of 32 years for 1240 German inventors. The patent data are linked … of inventors applying for the first patent after completing education or being in the highest quartile of citations … received for the first patent. The higher career productivity seems to be a consequence of higher individual ability rather …

remaining career. We use European patent data for a period of 32 years for 1240 German inventors. The patent data are linked … of inventors applying for the first patent after completing education or being in the highest quartile of citations … received for the first patent. The higher career productivity seems to be a consequence of higher individual ability rather …

concentration upon innovation, focusing on robust findings, questions of interpretation, and the identification of major gaps. We … also consider the more modest literature that considers the effect on innovation of firm characteristics other than size …

been few attempts to assess this group of firms ́propensity to patent or its patenting activities. This paper intends to …

innovation performance of companies and can pose major threats to global competition and economic growth. However, the actual …-2013 (OECD-EUIPO, 2016) with financial information and patent data from 2009 to 2015. The result is a firm-level database that … profitability (return on total assets), prior to the window of observation. Target companies also have on average larger patent …

The impact of strategies used to appropriate innovation rents on firm performance is analyzed using a sample of U ….S. public manufacturing firms. Stronger appropriability at the firm level, achieved through patent protection or the ownership … a firm's R&D assets. Among commonly used 'non-conventional' patent strategies, preemptive patenting allows incumbents to …