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Protecting innovation through patents and trade secrets : determinants and performance impacts for firms with a single innovation
Crass, Dirk; Garcia-Valero, Francisco; Pitton, Francesco; … - 2016
This paper tests a number of hypotheses on the use and effectiveness of patents and trade secrets designed to protect 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...
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R&D partnerships and innovation performance : can there be too much of a good thing?
Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes Bento, Cindy - 2015
R&D collaboration facilitates pooling of complementary skills, learning from the partner as well as sharing risks and costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance. Fewer studies addressed potential drawbacks of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393147
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R&D partnerships and innovation performance : can there be too much of a good thing?
Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes Bento, Cindy - 2014
R&D collaboration facilitates pooling of complementary skills, learning from the partner as well as sharing risks and costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance. Fewer studies addressed potential drawbacks of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440100
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Entrepreneurs from low-skilled immigrant groups in knowledge-intensive industries : company characteristics, survival and innovative performance
Müller, Elisabeth - 2011
limited access to capital. -- Immigrants ; innovation ; entrepreneurship ; knowledge-intensive industries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008990888
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Inventions under Siege? : the impact of technology competition on licensing
Grimpe, Christoph; Hussinger, Katrin - 2009
inlicensing activity. In this paper, we investigate the effect of expected blocking on firms' engagement in in- and out-licensing …. Based on a sample of more than 400 German manufacturing firms our results show that firms engage in in- and out-licensing if … technology competition increases which is in line with the argument that licensing can mitigate hold-up problems in technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003871201
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Patent thickets, licensing and innovative performance
Cockburn, Iain (contributor); MacGarvie, Megan (contributor) - 2009
firms, taking into consideration the role played by in-licensing of IP. We find that firms facing more fragmented IP … landscapes have a higher probability of in-licensing. For firms with small patent portfolios we also find a positive association … between fragmentation and licensing costs as a share of sales. We observe a negative relationship between IP fragmentation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922582
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The productivity effects of worker replacement in young firms
Murmann, Martin - 2017
Existing management research has so far dealt with the consequences of labor turnover for established firms, but has not addressed its effect on young entrepreneurial businesses. In this paper I assess, both theoretically and empirically, the productivity effects of worker replacement in young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606997
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If you don’t succeed, should you try again? : the role of entrepreneurial experience in venture survival
Gottschalk, Sandra; Greene, Francis J.; Höwer, Daniel; … - 2014
avoiding bankruptcy. Conclusions for entrepreneurship scholars, entrepreneurs and stakeholders are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010234047
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Employment growth in newly established firms : is there evidence for academic entrepreneur's human capital depreciation?
Müller, Kathrin - 2009
entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003881345
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The dynamic relationship between investments in brand equity and firm profitability : evidence using trademark registrations
Crass, Dirk; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Toole, Andrew A. - 2016
Most marketing practitioners and scholars agree that marketing assets such as brand equity significantly contribute to a firm's financial performance. In this paper, we model brand equity as an unobservable stock that results from up to thirty years of past brand-related investment flows. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418793