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Precocious Inventors : Early Patenting Success and Lifetime Inventive Performance

Michlbauer, Theresa; Zwick, Thomas - 2021

This paper shows that inventors with an early patenting success have a higher inventive productivity during their remaining career. We use European patent data for a period of 32 years for 1240 German inventors. The patent data are linked with survey data that provide information on an extensive...

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Capital Control, Debt Financing and Innovative Activity

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2014

innovation, i.e. weakly controlled managers show a higher innovation propensity. However, the higher the leverage the more …

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Protecting Innovation Through Patents and Trade Secrets : Determinants and Performance Impacts for Firms with a Single Innovation

Crass, Dirk - 2016

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 …

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The Knowledge Production of 'R' and 'D'

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius; Thorwarth, Suzanne - 2013

Many studies investigate the relationship between R&D expenditures as an input and patents as an intermediate product or output of a knowledge production function. We suggest that the productivity of research in patent production functions has been underestimated in the literature, as scholars...

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Hiring New Key Inventors to Improve Firms’ Post-M&A Inventive Output

Arroyabe, M. F.; Hussinger, Katrin; Hagedoorn, John - 2020

Although merger and acquisitions (M&As) are acknowledged as an important means to access innovative assets and know-how, firms’ inventive output often declines in the post-M&A period. Financial, managerial and organizational constraints related to the M&A event contribute to inventive output...

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The Interplay between Product Innovation, Publishing, Patenting and Developing Standards

Blind, Knut; Krieger, Bastian; Pellens, Maikel - 2022

. While the individual effects of engaging in the listed practices on firm innovation are well-understood, the existing … sample of innovation-active firms from the German Community Innovation Survey, which includes information on the development … of standards, enhanced with information on firms' engagement in patenting and publishing. We find that 26% of innovation …

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Inventor Mobility Index : A Method to Disambiguate Inventor Careers

Doherr, Thorsten - 2017

Usually patent data does not contain any unique identifiers for the patenting assignees or the inventors, as the main tasks of patent authorities is the examination of applications and the administration of the patent documents as public contracts and not the support of the empirical analysis of...

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External Capital Access and New Product Launch in Start-Up Firms with Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights

Heger, Diana - 2018

Classical patent literature assumes that patents grant well-defined legal rights to exclude others from practicing an invention. In this scenario, start-up companies benefit from the exclusive right to commercialize patent-protected inventions and the certification effect of patents which...

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Complementary Assets, Patent Thickets and Hold-Up Threats – Do Transaction Costs Undermine Investments in Innovation?

Schwiebacher, Franz - 2012

Innovation is commercialization of technology. Imperfections in markets for technology should leave marks on physical … investments for innovation. Two types of transaction costs could affect innovative investments: royality stacking and hold … ownership fragmentation on investments related to innovation for firms with small patent portfolios. Hold-up threats are …

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Patent Thickets, Licensing and Innovative Performance

Cockburn, Iain M.; MacGarvie, Megan; Mueller, Elisabeth - 2013

, but only for firms that engage in in-licensing and only for product innovation. The relationship between fragmentation and …

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