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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
This paper tests a number of hypotheses on the use and effectiveness of patents and trade secrets designed to protect 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...
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Innovationsaktivitäten von kmU im verarbeitenden Gewerbe : was zeichnet Imitatoren und originäre Innovatoren aus?
Zimmermann, Volker - 2003
This contribution is concerned with the spread of new products in small and medium-sized enterprises in the manufacturing sector. Based on an empirical study it is analyzed according to which factors planned product launches are either genuine market novelties or products that are new from the...
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R&D partnerships and innovation performance : can there be too much of a good thing?
Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes Bento, Cindy - 2015
market success of new products. While we can confirm previous findings in terms of gains for innovation performance, we also …R&D collaboration facilitates pooling of complementary skills, learning from the partner as well as sharing risks and … costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393147
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The effect of institutional ownership on firm innovation : evidence from Chinese listed firms
Rong, Zhao; Wu, Xiaokai; Boeing, Philipp - 2017
Monitoring by institutional investors can act as an important mechanism to promote firm innovation. By investigating Chinese listed firms' patenting between 2002 and 2011, we find that the presence of institutional investors enhances firm innovation. Consistent with the monitoring view, we...
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Innovation budgeting over the business cycle and innovation performance
Hud, Martin; Rammer, Christian - 2015
innovation budgets during the most recent economic crisis on firms' post-crisis innovation performance. Based on firm-level panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010511218
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R&D partnerships and innovation performance : can there be too much of a good thing?
Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes Bento, Cindy - 2014
market success of new products. While we can confirm previous findings in terms of gains for innovation performance, we also …R&D collaboration facilitates pooling of complementary skills, learning from the partner as well as sharing risks and … costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440100
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Firm R&D investment and export market exposure
Peters, Bettina; Roberts, Mark J.; Vuong, Van Anh - 2018
endogenous investment in R&D is an important mechanism that leads to a divergence in the long-run performance of firms that …
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Dynamic R&D choice and the impact of the firm's financial strength
Peters, Bettina; Roberts, Mark J.; Vuong, Van Anh - 2015
This article investigates how a firm's financial strength affcts its dynamic decision to invest in R&D. We estimate a dynamic model of R&D choice using data for German firms in high-tech manufacturing industries. The model incorporates a measure of the firm's financial strength, derived from its...
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An empirical test of the asymmetric models on innovative activity : who invests more into R&D - the incumbent or the challenger?
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2000
The theoretical discussion concerning the question whether the incumbent or the (potential) entrant invests more into R&D has attracted considerable interest. This paper reports the results of an empirical study on this question using data of about 3500 German firms over the years 1992 to 1995....
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Haftungsregeln und Innovation
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2000
This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity involves risk. On the one hand, the risk of firm owners is limited if their liability is limited. On the other hand credits will be more difficult to receive if liability is limited....
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