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Patents as quality signals? : the implications for financing constraints on R&D
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hall, Bronwyn H.; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2014
evidence for start-up firms on the role of patents as signals to investors, in particular to Venture Capitalists. This study …&D for a panel of established firms. The results show that patents do indeed attenuate financing constraints for small firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341887
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539042
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Exploring the tail of patented invention value distributions
Harhoff, Dietmar; Scherer, Frederic M.; Vopel, Katrin - 1997
holders. The paper focuses on those full-term German patents of the application year 1977 which were held by West German and U ….S. residents. The most valuable patents in our data account for a large fraction of the cumulative value over all observations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440960
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Publicly funded R&D collaborations and patent outcome in Germany
Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); Fier, Andreas (contributor) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001774210
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Knowledge flows, R&D spillovers and innovation
Peri, Giovanni (contributor) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001792560
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The relationship between R&D collaboration, subsidies and patenting activity : empirical evidence from Finnland and Germany
Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This study focuses on the impact of innovation policies and R&D collaboration in Germany and Finland. We consider collaboration and subsidies as heterogeneous treatments, and perform an econometric matching to analyze R&D and patent activity at the firm level. In general, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002040121
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On the profitability of innovative assets
Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); Kraft, Kornelius (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002040129
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Patenting behaviour and employment growth in German start-up firms : a panel data analysis
Niefert, Michaela (contributor) - 2005
The effect of innovations on employment at the firm level is theoretically ambiguous. The present paper analyses this relationship using panel data on German start-up firms as well as German patent data. It employs different indicators of patenting activity. By applying fixed-effects and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002515557
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Is silence golden? : Patents versus secrecy at the firm level
Hussinger, Katrin (contributor) - 2004
manufacturing in 2000, it turns out that patents are important to protect intellectual property in the market, whereas secrecy seems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002507528
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Capital control, debt financing and innovative activity
Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); Kraft, Kornelius (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002368257