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Internal capabilities and external networks in innovative activities. evidence from the software industry
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Does technological convergence imply convergence in markets? Evidence from the electronics industry
No full textThis paper uses data on new subsidiaries, acquisitions, collaborative agreements, and patents of the largest 32 US and European electronics firms during 1984-1992 to examine the relationships between technological and business diversification. We find that during the 1980s many firms focused on fewer businesses, but we find no evidence of greater technological focus. We argue that this is related to the fact that, in spite of technological convergence, electronics sectors still command highly industry- or even product-specific downstream assets. In addition, we find that business focus improved performance, but that better performance is also associated with greater technological diversification. We discuss some interpretation of this finding. © 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved
The role of media memorability in facilitating startups’ access to venture capital funding
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Exploiting complementarities in IPR mechanisms: the joint use of patents, trademarks and designs by SMEs
No full textIn this paper we analyze the existence of complementarity vs. substitution between different forms of IPRs (namely patents as opposed to trademarks and registered designs) in the specific case of SMEs. We address this research question by assessing the impact of different combinations of IPRs on firms’ economic performance, and using empirical evidence from a sample of SMEs operating in manufacturing industries in Northern Italy. Our results, based on a propensity score matching approach, provide evidence in support of complementarit
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Technological competition and patent strategy: Protecting innovation, preempting rivals and defending the freedom to operate
Full text linkDrawing on the resource-based view of the firm, we examine the effect of technological competition over a patent on the firm's choice of patenting strategy. We claim that technological competition makes the traditional strategy of protecting focal innovations from imitation less likely and increases the likelihood of a play strategy - i.e. using patents to avoid the risk of hold-up by other patent owners, or as a bargaining chip in litigation and cross -licensing. However, we claim also that technological competition over a target close to the firm's core technology should lead to use of a fence strategy i.e. to blocking the commercial endeavors of rivals and preempting sub-stitute inventions. We find support for our hypotheses using data from a large-scale survey of European patent applications
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