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Dr. Katrin Cremers

Industrial Economics and International Management

Katrin Cremers studied economics at the Technical University of Dresden and the University of Mannheim in Germany. During her studies, she focused on industrial organisation as well as social and private insurance systems. After completing her diploma thesis at the University of California, Berkeley, she received her diploma degree from the University of Mannheim in 1996.
Since March 1996 she has been working as a researcher at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Department of Industrial Economics and International Management. Her main research interests are the economics of innovation, law and economics, and the economics of intellectual property rights. She conducted studies on the valuation of patent rights and carried out an analysis of patent litigation cases.
In October 2006 Mrs Cremers finished her Ph.D. with her doctoral thesis on "Incidence, Settlement and Resolution of Patent Litigation Suits in Germany".

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Selected Publications

Publications in refereed Journals

Blind, Knut, Katrin Cremers and Elisabeth Müller (2009), The Influence of Strategic Patenting on Companies' Patent Portfolios, Research Policy 38(2), 428-436.

Cremers, Katrin (2009), Settlement during patent litigation trials. An Empirical Analysis for Germany, Journal of Technology Transfer 34, 182-195.

Harhoff, Dietmar, Frederic M. Scherer and Katrin Cremers (2003), Citations, Family Size, Opposition and the Value of Patent Rights, Research Policy 32, 1343-1363.

Harhoff, Dietmar, Francis Narin, F.M. Scherer and Katrin Cremers (1999), Citation Frequency and the Value of Patented Inventions, The Review of Economics and Statistics 81(3), 511-515.

Publications in Journals

Cremers, Katrin and Georg Licht (2006), Anstieg der Patentanmeldungen - Fakten und Erklärungsversuche, Die Volkswirtschaft 7/8-2006, 26-29.

Monographs, Articles in Anthologies

Harhoff, Dietmar, Frederic M. Scherer and Katrin Cremers (2003), Exploring the Tail of the Patent Value Distribution, in: Ove Granstrand, Economics, Law and Intellectual Property, Seeking strategies for research and teaching in a developing field, Boston / Dordrect / London.

Discussion Papers and Working Papers

Cremers, Katrin and Paula Schliessler (2012), Patent Litigation Settlement in Germany - Why Parties Settle during Trial, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 12-084, Mannheim. Download

Polt, Wolfgang, Martin Berger, Patries Boekholt, Katrin Cremers, Jürgen Egeln, Helmut Gassler, Reinhold Hofer and Christian Rammer (2010), Das deutsche Forschungs- und Innovationssystem - ein internationaler Systemvergleich zur Rolle von Wissenschaft, Interaktionen und Governance für die technologische Leistungsfähigkeit, Studien zum deutschen Innovationssystem Nr. 11-2010, Berlin. Download

Blind, Knut, Katrin Cremers and Elisabeth Müller (2007), The Influence of Strategic Patenting on Companies' Patent Portfolios, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-013, Mannheim. Download

Cremers, Katrin (2004), Determinants of Patent Litigation in Germany, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 04-72, Mannheim. Download

Spielkamp, A. and Katrin Cremers (1998), Mapping Innovative Clusters in National Innovation Systems, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 98-45, Mannheim. Download