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Innovation in China: The rise of Chinese inventors in the production of knowledge

Griffith, Rachel; Miller, Helen - 2011

In 2010 China was the world's fourth largest filer of patent applications. This followed a decade of unprecedented increases in investment in skills and Research and Development. If current trends continue China could rank first in the very near future. We provide evidence that the growth in...

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In-house R&D and external knowledge acquisition : what makes Chinese firms productive? ; conference paper

Boeing, Philipp; Müller, Elisabeth; Sandner, Philipp - 2013

This paper analyses the influence of in-house R&D and external knowledge acquisition on the total factor productivity (TFP) of listed Chinese firms for the time period 2001-2010. We find a quantitatively important positive effect of in-house R&D. The achieved level of technological...

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Recombinant innovation and the boundaries of the firm

Griffith, Rachel; Lee, Sokbae; Straathof, Bas - 2014

There is considerable interest in understanding how important market frictions are in stifling the transmission of ideas from one firm to another. Although the theoretical literature emphasizes the importance of these frictions, direct empirical evidence on them is limited. We use comprehensive...

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The influence of strategic patenting on companies' patent portfolios

Blind, Knut (contributor); Cremers, Katrin (contributor); … - 2007

This paper analyses whether strategic motives for patenting influence the characteristics of companies' patent portfolios. We use the number of citations and oppositions to represent these characteristics. The investigation is based on survey and patent data from German companies. We find clear...

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Competition and innovation: An inverted u relationship

Aghion, Philippe; Bloom, Nicholas; Blundell, Richard; … - 2002

This paper investigates the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation. A Schumpeterian …, competition may also reduce innovation incentives for laggards. This model generates four main predictions which we test … empirically. First, the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation is an inverted U-shape: the escape …

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Patent Thickets, Licensing and Innovative Performance

Müller, Elisabeth; MacGarvie, Megan J.; Cockburn, Iain M. - 2008

, but only for firms that engage in in-licensing and only for product innovation. The relationship between fragmentation and …

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Patent thickets, licensing and innovative performance

Cockburn, Iain M.; MacGarvie, Megan J.; Müller, Elisabeth - 2009

higher innovative performance for firms that do not in-license. Furthermore, the effects of fragmentation on innovation also …

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To Be Financed or Not … - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing

Haeussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth - 2009

This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncer-tainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...

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Knowledge stocks, persistent innovation and market dominance : evidence from a panel of British manufacturing firms

Blundell, Richard W.; Griffith, Rachel; Van Reenen, John - 1993

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Measuring patent quality in cross-country comparison

Boeing, Philipp; Müller, Elisabeth - In: Economics letters 149 (2016), pp. 145-147

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