affect firms' innovation strategy choices, concretely, whether to abstain from innovation, to introduce products that are … known in the market but new to the firm (imitation) or to introduce market novelties (innovation). Using a sample of 1253 … German firms from manufacturing and services sectors I show that the perceived effectiveness of patent protection positively …

The paper develops an oligopoly model of innovation and applies it to data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel. The … complexity, etc. are important determinants of overall innovation expenditures, but not for R&D specifically. If legal protection … affect the innovation activity of the firm. Specification tests derived from the theoretical model do not lead to a rejection …

may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds out proprietary innovation which on net may reduce total innovation … in the long run. These effects would be reinforced if philanthropical innovation diverted people from other productive …

This paper examines empirically the theoretical relationship between external knowledge and innovation success. Special …-specific absorptive capacities. The results of the micro-econometric analysis based on German firm data on innovation suggest that firms … can effectively use external R&D within their own innovation process, as long as they have access to the relevant …

granted, and patent renewal decisions. Our results provide support for the “strategic patenting” hypothesis on the lower value …This paper presents a novel analysis of the international dimension of the rapid growth of Chinese patenting and … advances an econometric model to scrutinize the determinants of patent granting, prior-art searches, opposition to patents …

interac-tion between these two innovation tools by determining the impact of a crowdfunding campaign’s patent status on the … campaign’s success and de-livery. The first study examines 9,184 Kickstarter campaigns in patent-eli-gible categories to … determine whether patented or patent-pending labeled projects are more likely to reach their funding goal and in turn achieve …

An innovative firm chooses strategically whether to patent its process innovation or rely on secrecy. By doing so, the … a smaller (greater) patenting incentive if patent protection is weak (strong) … firm manages its rival’s beliefs about the size of the innovation, and affects the incentives in the product market …