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Co-determination and innovation
Kraft, Kornelius; Stank, Jörg; Dewenter, Ralf - 2009
This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data from 1971-1976 and 1981-1990 on 148 firms are used to compare the number of patents granted to...
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Verifying high quality : entry for sale
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - 2017
When and how do entrepreneurs sell their inventions? To address this issue, we develop an endogenous entry-sale asymmetric information oligopoly model. We show that lowquality inventions are sold directly or used for own entry. Inventors who sell post-entry use entry to credibly reveal...
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Creative destruction and productive preemption
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - 2009
We develop a theory of commercialization mode (entry or sale) of entrepreneurial inventions into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is more likely to be sold (or licensed) to an incumbent due to strategic product market effects on the sales price. Moreover, preemptive...
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Adverse effects of patent pooling on product development and commercialization
Jeitschko, Thomas D.; Zhang, Nanyun - 2013
The conventional wisdom is that the formation of patent pools is welfare enhancing when patents are complementary, since the pool avoids a double-marginalization problem associated with independent licensing. This conventional wisdom relies on the effects that pooling has on downstream prices....
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Tell me who you patent with and I'll tell you who you are : evidence from inter-regional patenting networks in three emerging technological fields
Marsan, Giulia Ajmone; Primi, Annalisa - 2011
This paper presents an overview of co-patenting trends at the national and regional level in three technology fields (biotechnology, telecommunications and renewable energy), across regions in the OECD and emerging economies, from the late 1970s to the late 2000s. After a general introduction on...
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Impact of counterfeiting on the performance of digital technology companies
Butticè, Vincenzo; Caviggioli, Federico; Franzoni, Chiara - 2018
innovation performance of companies and can pose major threats to global competition and economic growth. However, the actual … impact of counterfeiting on the performance of companies has not been tested empirically, due to methodological problems … counterfeiting could have in part a beneficial effect on the performance of companies, due to indirect advertising, calling for …
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Innovation in green energy technologies and the economic performance of firms
Kruse, Jürgen - 2016
on the economic performance of firms. My analysis is conducted on a panel of 8,619 patenting firms including 968 green … energy patenters from 22 European countries over the period 2003 to 2010. I measure economic firm performance in terms of … innovation has a statistically significant negative impact on economic firm performance. In contrast, nongreen energy innovation …
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The merits of new pollutants and how to get them when parents are granted
Perino, Grischa - 2006
The performance of market based environmental regulation is affected by patents and vice versa. This interaction is …
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Climate change & technology transfer : barriers, technologies and mechanisms
Goldar, Amrita; Sharma, Shubham; Sawant, Viraj; Jain, Sajal - 2019
Technology transfer is one of the most contentious issues in international negotiations on climate change. Despite its recognition at international platforms such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, G20, etc., the independent review of Climate Technology Centre and...
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R&D productivity and firm size in semiconductors and pharmaceuticals : evidence from citation yields
Dindaroğlu, Burak - 2011
important and R&D-intensive industries: Semiconductors and Pharmaceuticals. I employ two measures of a firm's R&D performance …
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