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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

ownership on corporate innovation using data on patent activities from Chinese listed manufacturing firms covering the period …Corporate innovation plays a crucial role in maintaining competitiveness and enhancing firm value. However, despite … being the world's leading manufacturing nation, the role of managerial ownership in fostering innovation within the Chinese …

The paper aims to assess how public support for innovation activities influences the economic performance of Czech … their innovation activities. The analysis was performed on the case of the Innovation Program, which was co-financed by the … European Regional Development Fund. The Innovation Program is the largest Czech program for innovation support and mainly …

classes across all sectors and all EU Member States, we identify different innovation profiles based on a firm's R …&D investment and/or innovation activities. We find that "basic" firms - i.e. firms that do not engage in any type of R&D or … innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or …