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Patents : a means to innovation or strategic ends?
Schwarz, Jiri; Stepanek, Martin - 2016
This paper utilizes a data set of over 208,000 U.S. patents applied for between 1975 and 2010 to study development of strategic patenting over time and across industries. With received citations as a measure of patent social value, we use data envelopment analysis to estimate firm-level relative...
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Incentive for Innovation and the Optimal Allocation of Patents
Hamada, Kojun - 2017
incentives for innovation by applying a property rights approach. We explore a model in which two research laboratories invest in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944847
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Private-Collective Innovation, Competition, and Firms’ Counterintuitive Appropriation Strategies
Alexy, Oliver; Reitzig, Markus G. - 2011
We extend theory on private-collective innovation by studying the role of exclusion rights for technology in the … alternative proprietary solutions. We discuss implications of our findings for theories of innovation, particularly appropriation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206596
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Organization and geography of global R&D and innovation activities : insights from qualitative research on leading corporate R&D investors investors
Dosso, Mafini; Ramirez, Paulina - 2020
(RDI) activities. Insights are mainly drawn from interviews made to innovation representatives and managers of large R …&D-investing companies in 2017 in the frame of the European Commission's project - Industrial Research and Innovation Monitoring and Analysis …&D investors in order to better characterize the on-going fragmentation of R&D and innovation activities. The study suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202036
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Knowledge Disclosure, Patents and Optimal Organization of Research and Development
Bhattacharya, Sudipto - 2015
We develop a model of two-stage cumulative research and development (Ramp;D), in which one Research Unit (RU) with an innovative idea bargains to license her nonverifiable interim knowledge exclusively to one of two competing Development Units (DUs) via one of two alternative modes: an Open sale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750156
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Racing against time in research : a study of the 1995 U.S. patent law amendment
Kim, Jinyoung - 2017
increasing team size that we call the "racing against time" hypothesis: With innovation races more competitive globally, R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664519
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The mirroring hypothesis : theory, evidence and exceptions
Colfer, Lyra J.; Baldwin, Carliss Y. - 2016
The mirroring hypothesis predicts that organizational ties within a project, firm, or group of firms (e.g. communication, collocation, employment) will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the work being performed. A thorough understanding of the phenomenon is difficult to...
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Ancillary Patent Markets and the Firm
Burk, Dan L.; McDonnell, Brett - 2014
Intellectual property frequently carries with it exclusive rights not only over the primary subject matter of the rights granted, but also over ancillary subject matter that is not within the definition of the primary grant, as for example in the patent doctrine of contributory infringement....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014148274
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R&D, Organization Structure, and the Development of Corporate Technological Knowledge
Silverman, Brian S.; Argyres, Nicholas S. - 2014
decentralized R&D structure - and the type of innovation it produces. We propose that by reducing the internal transaction costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014029648
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The Organization of Research Corporations and Researcher Ability
Cassiman, Bruno - 1999
This paper analyzes the formation of Research Corporations as an alternative governance structure for performing R&D compared to pursuing in-house R&D projects. Research Corporations are private for-profit research centers that bring together several firms with similar research goals. In a...
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