(Concise) EARIE Exclusive: When Do Companies Share Knowledge About Innovations? (in German Language)
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#ZEWPodcast (Concise) EARIE Exclusive: When Do Companies Share Knowledge About Innovations? (in German Language)
A new product, process or technology can give companies a decisive competitive advantage. This makes it all the more surprising when companies deliberately make their patent applications public – even before the patent has been granted. Why do they reveal information about their innovations to their competitors in this way? Professor Bernhard Ganglmair, PhD, explores this question.
He is investigating how competition influences companies’ decisions to strategically disclose information about innovations – combining a theoretical competition model with empirical data on publicly disclosed patent applications. Host Pascal Ausäderer talks to him in our latest episode of the ZEW podcast “Wirklich Wirtschaft”.