the German patent office. The results show that there is an inverted u-shaped relationship between the chances of a firm …

performance to examine the influences on reputation for technological innovation. Using patent, financial and consumer data our …Firms strategically promote, foster and pursue a reputation for technological innovation. Yet, present research did not … (citation intensity) is linked to reputation for technological innovation. Counter-intuitively, our results provide evidence …

observe export and patenting activities worldwide and at the product level. We exploit how heterogeneity of patent … coverageacross (and within) product-country relates to exports. We find a patent premium of at least 10 percent, which is mainly …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …

intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …' successful patent applications. The last chapter describes sector-level input-output relationships in eleven European economies …

toward these potential high-impact technologies and compare the state of cutting-edge innovation in Switzerland to other … countries. Our findings imply that the Swiss innovation system is among the laggards regarding innovations in today's fastest …

Innovation is the foundation of social progress and international competitiveness. Based on a new approach to patent … the top ten percent of the most important patents from the active patent portfolio in 58 cutting-edge technologies (world … class patents), we find that the international balance of power in innovation is shifting in favour of East Asia. While the …