Showing 1 - 10 of 36
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001470820
The market launch of product innovations is the most visible output of a firm's investment in innovation activities. To achieve this objective most efficiently, firms strengthen their technological capabilities, acquire external knowledge in a number of different ways, and optimize their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010458242
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001401392
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001313680
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 the complementary role of the two protection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539042
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527396
Most marketing practitioners and scholars agree that marketing assets such as brand equity significantly contribute to a firm's financial performance. In this paper, we model brand equity as an unobservable stock that results from up to thirty years of past brand-related investment flows. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418793
The market launch of product innovations is the most visible output of a firm's investment in innovation activities. To achieve this objective most efficiently, firms strengthen their technological capabilities, acquire external knowledge in a number of different ways, and optimize their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028515
Trademarking firms are more productive, generate higher profits, and have a better survival rate. Trademarking firms are in one word more successful, which might motivate non-trademarking firms to adopt a trademark strategy. But this seems not to be the case. The proportion of trademarking firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028517