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 …

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 …

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 …

This study explores the characteristics and determinants of innovation of exceptionally innovative small and medium … innovation in small serial innovators. We also provide comparisons to whether differences exist with respect to large serial … innovators, traditionally associated with persistent innovation. Our empirical evidence is based upon a longitudinal dataset of …

information on revenues, product and process innovation. I then regress these measures of business performance on top team … between diversity and business performance, which is net positive for process innovation and net negative for turnover …

and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are successful in innovation without research and development (R&D) efforts. In this … DUI-based innovation in less R&D-intensive SMEs. That is, companies operating largely under the DUI mode seem to benefit …