Inventions under siege? The impact of technology competition on licensing

Arbeitspapier

In recent years, firms have increasingly contributed to and been confronted with a patent landscape characterized by numerous but marginal inventions, overlapping claims and patent fences. Literature suggests that both the fragmentation of ownership and the threat of a firm's patent applications being blocked by competitors' patents lead to increased patenting and inlicensing activity. In this paper, we investigate the effect of expected blocking on firms' engagement in in- and out-licensing. Based on a sample of more than 400 German manufacturing firms our results show that firms engage in in- and out-licensing if technology competition increases which is in line with the argument that licensing can mitigate hold-up problems in technology markets.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 09-039

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Contracting Out; Joint Ventures; Technology Licensing ; Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
• Thema: Licensing ; blocking patents ; discrete and complex technologies ; technology competition ; Lizenzvergabe ; Patent ; Innovationswettbewerb ; Wettbewerbsbeschränkung ; Verarbeitendes Gewerbe ; Technologie ; Deutschland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Grimpe, Christoph ; Hussinger, Katrin
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
• (wo): Mannheim
• (wann): 2009

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/27763
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ