Crass, Dirk; Valero, Francisco Garcia; Pitton, Francesco; … - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 26 (2019) 1, pp. 117-156
This paper analyzes the use and effectiveness of patents and trade secrets designed to protect innovation. While … innovation firms and hence overcome the assignment problem of existing empirical studies, that is, whether firms using both … protection methods do so for the same innovation or for different innovations. Employing firm panel data from Germany, we find …