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On the Importance of Technological Relatedness : SMEs versus Large Acquisition Targets

Hussinger, Katrin - 2014

-sized entrprises (SMEs). The empirical results suggest that firms engage in M&As to strengthen their technological competencies. A … related technology portfolio is, in particular, important for the decision to acquire SMEs. This suggests an information …

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The value of disclosing IPR to open standard setting organizations

Hussinger, Katrin; Schwiebacher, Franz - 2013

Open standard-setting organizations (SSOs) have emerged as important coordination and diffusion mechanism for information and communication technologies. Open standards are developed non-discriminatorily and licensed to anybody at reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. Little is known about...

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The Value of Disclosing IPR to Open Standard Setting Organizations

Hussinger, Katrin; Schwiebacher, Franz - 2015

In light of the increased demand for interoperability, fragmented ownership of intellectual property and high costs for communicating new technologies, open standard-setting activities emerged as important coordination and diffusion mechanism. Little is known about the value of contributions to...

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On the importance of technological relatedness : SMEs versus large acquisition targets

Hussinger, Katrin - In: Technovation : the international journal of … 30 (2010) 1, pp. 57-64

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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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In search for the not-invented-here syndrome : the role of knowledge sources and firm success

Hussinger, Katrin; Wastyn, Annelies - 2011 - This version: June 2011

The not-invented-here (NIH) syndrome refers to internal resistance in a company against externally developed knowledge. In this paper, we argue that the occurrence of the NIH syndrome depends on the source of external knowledge and the success of the firm that aims at adapting external...

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Costs and benefits of inter-departmental innovation collaboration

Cuijpers, Maarten; Guenter, Hannes; Hussinger, Katrin - 2011

Inter-departmental innovation collaboration facilitates innovation performance. At the same time, it has been … tests hypotheses on the costs and benefits of innovation-related collaboration within firms. Based on a sample of 433 German … manufacturing firms we show inter-departmental innovation collaboration to increase process innovation performance, but also to …

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Corporate science in the patent system : an analysis of the semiconductor technology

Della Malva, Antonio; Hussinger, Katrin - 2010

Corporate scientific publications are often presented as a strategic means for firms to create prior art with the objective to prevent others from patenting related inventions. This presumes that corporate publications enter the pool of prior art which is relevant to judge the novelty of patent...

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The contribution of corporate ventures to radical innovation

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Dick, Johannes M. H.; Hussinger, Katrin - 2010

Established firms often face significant obstacles to innovation. As a solution, it has been suggested to form corporate ventures. Based on a sample of corporate and independent ventures in German manufacturing, we show that corporate ventures are more innovative than the control group, i.e. the...

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Absorptive capacity and post-acquisition inventor productivity

Hussinger, Katrin - 2010

Inventors often experience a low productivity after their company has been subject to a merger or acquisition (M&As). It is of central managerial interest to identify factors facilitating the integration of new inventive staff and thereby counteracting innovation declines after M&As. This paper...

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