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Market Value and Patent Quality in Japanese Manufacturing Firms
Yasuo, Nakanishi; Setsuo, Yamada - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We investigate the effect of quality of patents on the market value of firms represented by the Tobin's q. We consider the number of objections as well as the number of citations. We construct the database of patent stock, citation-weighted patent stock and objection-weighted patent stock. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623395
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We're on a road to nowhere... new forms of work organization and national cultures
Ferreira, Pedro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The main objective of this paper is to discuss how far the cultural environment is related to the potential that new forms of work organization, namely autonomy and teamwork, have for success. To accomplish this objective two main approaches will be used: on the one hand, the Socio-Technical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647336
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Does Mobility Increase the Productivity of Inventors?
Hoisl, Karin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Although labor mobility has been recognized as a key mechanism for transferring tacit knowledge, prior research on inventors has so far hardly discussed the impact of a move on inventive performance. Additionally, existing research has neglected the differences in gains from a move between high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005157502
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Tracing Mobile Inventors – The Causality between Inventor Mobility and Inventor Productivity
Hoisl, Karin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper analyzes the causality between inventor productivity and inventor mobility. The results show that the level of education has no influence on inventor productivity. Making use of external sources of knowledge, on the contrary, has a significant effect on productivity. Finally, firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005187263
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Factors behind international relocation and changes in production geography in the European automobile components industry
Lampón, Jesús F.; Lago-Peñas, Santiago - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This article analyses business strategies in the automobile sector to determine the key factors behind production relocation processes in automobile components suppliers. These factors help explain changes in production geography in the sector not only in terms of location advantages but also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108756
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Measuring the Rate of Obsolescence of Patents in Japanese Manufacturing Firms
Nakanishi, Yasuo; Yamada, Setsuo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This article assesses the rate of obsolescence of patents with measurements of the rate in Japan. Our study departs from Parkes and Schankerman (1989) and Schankerman (1998) because of its application of the ordered probit model. The application of this model enables us to consider the case of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836191
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Switching from Patents to an Intertemporal Bounty in a Non-Scale Growth Model: Transitional Dynamics and Welfare Evaluation
Lin, Hwan C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The prize system for innovation has been criticized as impractical due to the lack of a workable formula or algorithm … can function to duplicate Pareto optimality. Under this system, any bountiable innovation is placed in the public domain …, and the prize of innovation is dynamically amortized in an infinitely time domain as periodic bounties paid to holders of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259176
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Switching from Patents to an Intertemporal Bounty in a Non-Scale Growth Model
Lin, Hwan C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The prize system for innovation has been criticized as impractical due to the lack of any workable formula or algorithm … can function to duplicate Pareto optimality. Under this system, any bountiable innovation is placed in the public domain …, and the prize of innovation is dynamically amortized in an infinite time domain as periodic bounties paid to holders of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729014
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A cooperação entre equipas de trabalho em empresas em rede: vantagens para o desenvolvimento regional
Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
Working teams in enterprise environment are considered as the most advanced forms of work organisation. This means the forms that can improve productivity quality of working life. Nevertheless, it prevail a slow development and dissemination of these advanced organisational forms in European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115490
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A cooperação entre equipas de trabalho em empresas em rede: vantagens para o desenvolvimento regional
Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
Working teams in enterprise environment are considered as the most advanced forms of work organisation. This means the forms that can improve productivity quality of working life. Nevertheless, it prevail a slow development and dissemination of these advanced organisational forms in European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010601620