Showing 1 - 10 of 22
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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012216946
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
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009686719
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
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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219262
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219274
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219294
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219426