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Formal and Strategic Appropriability Strategies of Multinational Firms: A Cross Country Comparison
Faria, Pedro; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2008
International knowledge spillovers, especially through multinational companies (MNCs), have recently been a major topic of discussion among academics and practitioners. Most research in this field focuses on knowledge sharing activities of MNC subsidiaries. Relatively little is known about their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298040
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Host Country Contingencies on Knowledge Protection Strategies of Multinational Firms: Bring a Knife to a Gunfight?
Sofka, Wolfgang; Shehu, Edlira - 2009
International knowledge spillovers, especially through multinational companies (MNCs), have recently been a major topic of the academic and management discussion. However, most studies treat MNC subsidiaries as relatively passive actors without clear knowledge protection strategies. The goal of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298720
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Does the mobility of R&D labor increase innovation?
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - 2014
We investigate the effect of mobility of R&D workers on the total patenting activity of their employers. Our study … documents how mobile workers affect the patenting activity of the firm they join and the firm they leave. The effect of labor … former employer's patenting from workers who have left for another patent-active firm. Summing up the effects of joining and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457063
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New evidence on determinants of IP litigation: A market-based approach
Czarnitzki, Dirk; van Criekingen, Kristof - 2018
We contribute to the economic literature on patent litigation by taking a new perspective. In the past, scholars mostly focused on specific litigation cases at the patent level and related technological characteristics to the event of litigation. However, observing IP disputes suggests that not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011817198
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The effect of institutional ownership on firm innovation: Evidence from Chinese listed firms
Rong, Zhao; Wu, Xiaokai; Boeing, Philipp - 2017
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 further find that (1) the effect of institutional investors on firm patenting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592293
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Does the mobility of R&D labor increase innovation?
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
We investigate the effect of mobility of R&D workers on the total patenting activity of their employers. Our study … documents how mobile workers affect the patenting activity of the firm they join and the firm they leave. The effect of labor … former employer's patenting from workers who have left for another patent-active firm. Summing up the effects of joining and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011104995
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Host Country Contingencies on Knowledge Protection Strategies of Multinational Firms: Bring a Knife to a Gunfight?
Sofka, Wolfgang; Shehu, Edlira - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
International knowledge spillovers, especially through multinational companies (MNCs), have recently been a major topic of the academic and management discussion. However, most studies treat MNC subsidiaries as relatively passive actors without clear knowledge protection strategies. The goal of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097889
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Formal and Strategic Appropriability Strategies of Multinational Firms: A Cross Country Comparison
Faria, Pedro; Sofka, Wolfgang - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
International knowledge spillovers, especially through multinational companies (MNCs), have recently been a major topic of discussion among academics and practitioners. Most research in this field focuses on knowledge sharing activities of MNC subsidiaries. Relatively little is known about their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098370
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The greener, the better? Evidence from government contractors
Chiappinelli, Olga; Dalò, Ambrogio; Giuffrida, Leonardo M. - 2024
Governments can support the green transition through green public procurement. Despite its strategic importance, the impact of this policy on firms remains unclear. Using US data, this paper provides the first empirical analysis of the causal effects of green contracts on corporate environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015211863
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Public procurement as an innovation policy: Where do we stand?
Chiappinelli, Olga; Giuffrida, Leonardo M.; Spagnolo, … - 2023
Economics and innovation scholars have long recognized the potential of public procurement to trigger innovation. To what extent has this potential been realized so far? What can be done to improve the performance of PPI in this regard? This paper addresses these issues by providing a literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013502149