Similar Search Results

Patent thickets, licensing and innovative performance

Cockburn, Iain (contributor); MacGarvie, Megan (contributor) - 2009

We examine the relationship between fragmented intellectual property (IP) rights and the innovative performance of firms, taking into consideration the role played by in-licensing of IP. We find that firms facing more fragmented IP landscapes have a higher probability of in-licensing. For firms...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922582

Research grants, sources of ideas and the effects on academic research

Hottenrott, Hanna; Lawson, Cornelia - 2012

Based on a sample of research units in science and engineering at German universities, this study reports survey evidence showing that research grants impact research content. Research units that receive funds from industry are more likely to source ideas from the private sector. The higher the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572474

Quantity or quality? : collaboration strategies in research and development and incentives to patent

Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes-Bento, Cindy - 2012

more forward citations per patent indicating that joint R&D enhances patent quality. In light of literature on strategic … intellectual property, while exchange alliances drive "portfolio patenting", resulting in fewer forward citations. -- R …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572477

Complementary assets, patent thickets and hold-up threats : do transaction costs undermine investments in innovation?

Schwiebacher, Franz - 2012

Innovation is commercialization of technology. Imperfections in markets for technology should leave marks on physical investments for innovation. Two types of transaction costs could affect innovative investments: royality stacking and hold-up threats. Backward references in firm's patent...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009510154

The strategic use of fuzziness in patent specifications

Zaby, Alexandra; Heger, Diana - 2013

Innovators seek to protect their intellectual assets by patenting them, at the same time trying to avoid any disclosure of critical knowledge. Given that a patent specification has to include a clear description of the patented matter so that anybody "skilled in the art" is enabled to reproduce...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771844

Does fragmented or heterogeneous IP ownership stifle investments in innovation?

Schwiebacher, Franz - 2013

Thickets of partially overlapping patent rights raise costs to secure IPR for innovation. Fragmented IP ownership raises coordination costs to resolve mutual blockades. Inadvertent patent infringement poses the risk of fruits from investments to be exploited. A gap in economic commitment levels...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204044

External capital access and new product launch in start-up firms with uncertain intellectual property rights

Heger, Diana; Hussinger, Katrin - 2013

Classical patent literature assumes that patents grant well-defined legal rights to exclude others from practicing an invention. In this scenario, start-up companies benefit from the exclusive right to commercialize patent-protected inventions and the certification effect of patents which...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204045

Intangible knowledge capital and innovation in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Smith, Adam Nicholas - 2013

Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) - technology produced by workers but not embodied in them - can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises - more so in domestically owned than in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224593

The market value of blocking patent citations

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Leten, Bart - 2011

shown that patents and their quality as measured by citations received by future patents contribute significantly to the … forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of … the art, it can also be cited because it threatens the novelty of patent applications ("blocking citations"). Empirical …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008937317

The nexus between science and industry : evidence from faculty inventions

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Schneider, Cédric - 2009

exhibit a higher short-term value in terms of forward citations and a higher potential to block property rights of competitors …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846112