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Standards, Innovation Incentives, and the Formation of Patent Pools
Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2010
Technological standards give rise to a complements problem that affects pricing and innovation incentives of technology … producers. In this paper I discuss how patent pools can be used to solve these problems and what incentives patent holders have … to form a patent pool. I offer some suggestions how competition authorities can foster the formation of welfare …
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Normung und Innovation sind keine Gegensätze
Konrad, Anne; Zloczysti, Petra - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 40, pp. 10-15
Die Rolle von Normen innerhalb des Innovationssystems ist sehr umstritten. Es wird sogar vermutet, dass die Zeit der Normung bereits abgelaufen sei. Andererseits wird von einer erstarrenden Regelsetzung gesprochen, die die notwendige Flexibilität für Erfindungen und Innovationen verhindere....
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Absorptive capacity and innovation: When is it better to cooperate?
Egbetokun, Abiodun A.; Savin, Ivan - 2012
Cooperation can benefit and hurt firms at the same time. An important question then is: when is it better to cooperate. And how can an appropriate partner be selected? In this paper we present a model of inter-firm cooperation driven by cognitive distance, appropriability conditions and external...
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Regional and technological effects of cooperation behavior
Cantner, Uwe; Meder, Andreas - 2008
. Applying this method to German patent data we find evidence that regional differences in the degree of cooperative innovation …In this paper we investigate the determinants of cooperative innovation and put our main focus on the regional or … differential regional effects. The latter can be used to identify and evaluate the strength of regional innovation systems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263863
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Dynamics of collaborative invention tracking growth of cooperative and total patents in the region
Bürger, Matthias - 2011
The paper targets the relationship between growth of cooperation and later growth of innovation at the regional level …. Patent data for German regions and eleven subsequent years is used to identify collaborative activity as well as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281626
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Climate-friendly technologies in the mobile air-conditioning sector: A patent citation analysis
Rave, Tilmann; Goetzke, Frank - 2011
fluorinatedgreenhouse gas emissions. Using patents as an indicator of innovations and patent citations as a proxy for knowledge flows the … across patent applicant- and firm-types is analyzed. We find that most environmental patents originate from Germany and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312206
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The Transaction Costs Perspective on Standards as a Source of Trade and Productivity Growth
den Butter, Frank A.G.; Groot, Stefan P.T.; Lazrak, Faroek - 2007
This paper discusses the design, implementation and use of standards from the perspective of transaction costs economics. A proper design and implementation of standards may lead to a considerable reduction of transaction costs, which enhances trade and, consequently, economic welfare. A major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325142
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The role(s) of intellectual property Rights for innovation: a review of the empirical evidence and implications for developing countries
Léger, Andréanne - 2007
the costs and benefits of the patent system, the use of patents as innovation indicators, and the need for more research …The role patents play for innovation is not clear, but patenting activity has increased in the last decades. This … article reviews the empirical evidence on traditional and novel roles of patents to assess their impacts on innovation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264960
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Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change: Evidence from the auto industry
Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hemous, David; … - 2012
innovation distinguishing between dirty (internal combustion engine) and clean (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294270
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Technological diversity, scientific excellence and the location of inventive activities abroad: The case of nanotechnology
Fernandez-Ribas, Andrea; Shapira, Philip - 2008
Our contribution to the expanding literature on the globalization of research and innovation is to investigate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330108