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Heterogeneity of Patenting Activity and its Implications for Scientific Research

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Glänzel, Wolfgang; Hussinger, Katrin - 2013

The increasing commercialization of university discoveries has initiated a controversy on the impacts for future scientific research. It has been argued that an increasing orientation towards commercialization may have a negative impact on more fundamental research efforts in science. Several...

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Defensive Publishing - An Empirical Study

Henkel, Joachim; Lernbecher (neé Pangerl), Stefanie M. - 2008

Defensive Publishing denotes publication of an invention with the purpose of creating prior art, and thus preventing patents being granted on this invention. Although widely employed, it has hardly been investigated empirically. Our study is based on 56 in-depth interviews, among others with...

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The Influence of Strategic Patenting on Companies' Patent Portfolios

Blind, Knut; Cremers, Katrin; Mueller, Elisabeth - 2014

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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Green New Product Development : The Pivotal Role of Product Greenness

Driessen, Paul H.; Hillebrand, Bas; Kok, Robert; … - 2014

This study aims to develop an integrative framework for green new product development (NPD) based on the existing literature and to empirically study the applicability of that integrative framework. This study answers three calls: for research that is rooted in a traditional NPD perspective, for...

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Strategic Change of Public Research Units in Their Scientific Activity

Coccia, Mario; Rolfo, Secondo - 2015

The current debate on public sector research in modern economies has generated an increasing interest regarding the scientific activity of research units for external users. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between production of basic research and applied activity of...

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Open for Ideation : Individual-Level Openness and Idea Generation in R&D

Salter, Ammon; Ter Wal, Anne L. J.; Criscuolo, Paola; … - 2014

Organizations are increasingly encouraging their scientists and engineers to source knowledge externally. However, it is unclear how the openness of individuals to external sources of knowledge affects their ideation performance, that is, their ability to develop new, useful innovative ideas for...

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Customer Integration and Voice-of-Customer Methods in the German Automotive Industry

Rese, Alexandra; Saenn, Alexander; Homfeldt, Felix - 2014

Open innovation and the integration of external sources have become increasingly important for the automotive industry …

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Knowledge Flows and R&D Co-Operation : Firm-Level Evidence from Germany

Schmidt, Tobias - 2015

the Third Community Innovation Survey from Germany, we focus on the role of spillovers in explaining R&D cooperation. We …

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A Longitudinal Study of the Influence of Alliance Network Structure and Composition on Firm Exploratory Innovation

Phelps, Corey C. - 2014

innovation. In a longitudinal investigation of 77 telecommunications equipment manufacturers, I find the technological diversity … of a firm’s alliance partners increases its exploratory innovation. I also find that network density among a firm … diverse information can coexist in a firm’s alliance network and the combination of the two increases exploratory innovation …

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The Determinants of Commercialization Strategy : Idiosyncrasies in British and German Biotechnology

Häussler, Carolin - 2013

The intention of this paper is to investigate whether market-related factors have a stronger influence on the strategic decision-making of ventures in 'liberal market economies' than on that of their counterparts in 'coordinated economies.' Thereby, we focus on a particularly important strategic...

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