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Protecting innovation through patents and trade secrets : determinants and performance impacts for firms with a single innovation
Crass, Dirk; Garcia-Valero, Francisco; Pitton, Francesco; … - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539042
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Intellectual property box regimes : effective tax rates and tax policy considerations
Evers, Lisa; Miller, Helen; Spengel, Christoph - 2013
11 European countries now operate IP Box regimes that provide substantially reduced rates of corporate tax for income derived from important forms of intellectual property. We incorporate these policies into forward-looking measures of the cost of capital, effective marginal tax rates and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128713
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Innovation strategies of German firms : the effect of competition and intellectual property protection
Slivko, Olga - 2012
affect firms' innovation strategy choices, concretely, whether to abstain from innovation, to introduce products that are … known in the market but new to the firm (imitation) or to introduce market novelties (innovation). Using a sample of 1253 … effectiveness is low or medium, both innovation and imitation are enhanced, whereas if it is high, only innovation is enhanced …
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Knowledge creates markets : the influence of entrepreneurial support and patent rights on academic entrepreneurship
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Doherr, Thorsten; Hussinger, Katrin; … - 2016 - This version: April 2016
We use an exogenous change in German Federal law to examine how entrepreneurial support and the ownership of patent rights influence academic entrepreneurship. In 2002, the German Federal Government enacted a major reform called Knowledge Creates Markets that set up new infrastructure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011456680
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Which firms use trademarks : and why? ; representative firm-level evidence from Germany
Crass, Dirk - 2014
Trademarking firms are more productive, generate higher profits, and have a better survival rate. Trademarking firms are in one word more successful, which might motivate non-trademarking firms to adopt a trademark strategy. But this seems not to be the case. The proportion of trademarking firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010458246
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Is silence golden? : Patents versus secrecy at the firm level
Hussinger, Katrin (contributor) - 2004
In the 1990s, patenting schemes changed in many respects: upcoming new technologies accelerated the shift from price competition towards competition based on technical inventions, a worldwide surge in patenting took place, and the patent thicket arose as a consequence of strategic patenting....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002507528
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Patent thickets, licensing and innovative performance
Cockburn, Iain (contributor); MacGarvie, Megan (contributor) - 2009
higher innovative performance for firms that do not in-license. Furthermore, the effects of fragmentation on innovation also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922582
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External capital access and new product launch in start-up firms with uncertain intellectual property rights
Heger, Diana; Hussinger, Katrin - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204045
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Intellectual property box regimes : effective tax rates and tax policy considerations
Evers, Lisa; Miller, Helen; Spengel, Christoph - 2013 - First version: September 2013 ; This version: November 2013
11 European countries now operate IP Box regimes that provide substantially reduced rates of corporate tax for income derived from important forms of intellectual property. We incorporate these policies into forward-looking measures of the cost of capital, effective marginal tax rates and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228563
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Individual versus institutional ownership of university-discovered inventions
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Doherr, Thorsten; Hussinger, Katrin; … - 2015
We examine how the ownership of intellectual property rights influences patenting of university-discovered inventions. In 2002, Germany transferred patent rights from faculty members to their universities. To identify the effect on the volume of patenting, we exploit the researcher-level...
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