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Individual Determinants of Inventor Productivity : Report and Preliminary Results with Evidence from Linked Human Capital and Patent Data
Frosch, Katharina - 2015
This report offers new insights into the drivers of inventor productivity at the individual level. It includes well … largely neglected in existing studies on inventor productivity, such as the breadth of work experience, divergent thinking … total variation of productivity explained by individual characteristics. Furthermore, we find differences in the importance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027874
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Institutionalized incentives for ingenuity : patent value and the German Employees' Inventions Act
Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin - 2006
Germany is one of few countries in which the monetary compensation for inventors is not only determined by negotiations between employer and employee-inventor, but also by relatively precise legal provisions. In this paper, we describe the characteristics of the German Employees' Inventions Act...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441538
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Filling the gap : the consequences of collaborator loss in corporate R&D
Poege, Felix; Gäßler, Fabian; Hoisl, Karin; Harhoff, … - 2022
-specific capital on productivity and influence the career trajectories of the remaining collaborators. We empirically investigate the … moderate negative effect on the productivity of the remaining collaborators. This negative effect disappears when we focus on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014458846
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Filling the gap : the consequences of collaborator loss in corporate R&D
Poege, Felix; Gäßler, Fabian; Hoisl, Karin; Harhoff, … - 2022
-specific capital on productivity and influence the career trajectories of the remaining collaborators. We empirically investigate the … moderate negative effect on the productivity of the remaining collaborators. This negative effect disappears when we focus on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414730
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Everything you always wanted to know about inventors (but never asked) : evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey
Giuri, Paola; Mariani, Myriam; Brusoni, Stefano; … - 2006
Based on a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patented inventions, this paper provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the motivations to invent, and the actual use and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441539
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The power of individual-level drivers of inventive performance
Zwick, Thomas; Frosch, Katharina; Hoisl, Karin; … - In: Research policy : policy, management and economic … 46 (2017) 1, pp. 121-137
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011741057
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The power of individual-level drivers of inventive performance
Zwick, Thomas; Frosch, Katharina; Hoisl, Karin; … - 2015
Based on an established theoretical framework of the drivers of inventive performance, the so-called KSAO (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other) factors, this paper seeks to explain empirically the performance of inventors throughout their careers. We combine survey information spanning the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381965