This paper examines how university research alliances and other cooperative links with universities contribute to startup employment growth. We argue that “scientific absorptive capacity” at the startup is…
A recent theoretical model by Epstein and Schneider (2008) predicts that a firm’s assets will be undervalued by the market if the information surrounding these assets is ambiguous. The model further predicts…
Building on real options literature, this study shows that the use of a staged approach for the management of innovation projects affects the innovation output of firms differently depending on firm…
This paper explores the effect of bargaining in vertical relationships on the profitability of suppliers’ R&D investments. Studies on the relationship between R&D and firm profitability mostly concentrate on the…
Der Innovationsindikator erfasst die Innovationsbedingungen am Wirtschaftsstandort Deutschland und vergleicht diese mit den weltweit führenden Industriestaaten. Die Innovationsleistung wird für fünf Teilbereiche…
Europäische Staaten werden momentan mit einer Vielzahl von Herausforderungen konfrontiert, die sich von der neuen globalen Verteilung der wirtschaftlichen Aktivität, der Verbreitung neuer, radikaler Technologien…
We analyze the impact of the probabilistic nature of patents on the functioning of Germany’s bifurcated patent litigation system where infringement and validity of a patent are decided independently by different…
