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Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data
Jirjahn, Uwe; Kraft, Kornelius - 2006
We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive … exert no such independent influence on drastic innovation activities. The results support the hypothesis that establishments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297531
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Success in pharmaceutical research: The changing role of scale and scope economies, spillovers and competition
Plotnikova, Tatiana - 2010
factors of success in drug development programs at different stages of innovation process. We use economies of scale, scope, R … a project differs in relation to the discovery and development stages of innovation, respectively. Our main finding is … discovery stage of innovation, while in the later development stage, the effects of competition outweigh any benefits from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270028
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Bottom-up vs. top-down policies towards the commercialization of university intellectual property
Goldfarb, Brent; Henrekson, Magnus - 2001
What national policies are most efficient in promoting the commercialization of university-generated knowledge? We address this question by characterizing and evaluating the policy pursued in Sweden and the US, two countries that put a great deal of resources into university R&D, but follow very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281236
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Designing efficient institutions for science-based entrepreneurship: Lessons from the US and Sweden
Henrekson, Magnus; Rosenberg, Nathan - 2000
The recent 'scientification' of commercial technology has brought the interface between universities and industry into sharp focus. In particular, academic entrepreneurship, i.e., the variety of ways in which academics take direct part in the commercialization of research, is widely discussed....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281352
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Spillover use and innovation success : what role does R&D play?
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2012
innovation success in establishments without R&D but not in establishments with R&D. This supports the hypothesis that rivals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010356044
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Mapping innovative clusters in national innovation systems
Spielkamp, Alfred; Vopel, Katrin - 1998
In the following paragraphs we will discuss the "mapping of innovative clusters in national innovation systems". For … Innovation Survey (which is comparable with CIS data). The Community Innovation Survey (CIS) is an initiative of the EU … innovation systems, highlight the outline conditions for innovations in Germany, focusing above all on the basis of innovations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442326
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Quantity or quality? : knowledge alliances and their effects on patenting
Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes Bento, Cindy - 2013 - This version: December 2013
This study shows for a large sample of R&D-active manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2009 that knowledge alliances have a positive effect on patenting in terms of both quantity and quality. However, when distinguishing between alliances that aim at joint creation of new knowledge and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212399
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Mapping innovative clusters in national innovation systems
Spielkamp, Alfred; Vopel, Katrin - 1998
In the following paragraphs we will discuss the 'mapping of innovative clusters in national innovation systems'. For … Innovation Survey (which is comparable with CIS data). The Community Innovation Survey (CIS) is an initiative of the EU … innovation systems, highlight the outline conditions for innovations in Germany, focusing above all on the basis of innovations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428185
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Why powerful buyers finance suppliers' R&D
Bönte, Werner; Wiethaus, Lars - 2008
It is a common concern that pricing pressure by powerful buyers discourages suppliers' R&D investments. Employing a simple monopsonist - competitive upstream industry - framework, this paper qualifies this view in two respects. First, the monopsonist has an incentive to subsidize upstream R&D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291128
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Standards as a knowledge source for R&D : a first look at their incidence and impacts based on the inventor survey and patent bibliographic data
Tsukada, Naotoshi; Nagaoka, Sadao - 2011
This paper analyzes how standards as a knowledge source are important for R&D, how significantly the (backward) citations by a patent of standard-related documents measure such knowledge flow, and how significantly they affect the performance of downstream R&D. Using both the RIETI inventor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009154053