Arbeitspapier
Patent protection, market uncertainty, and R&D investment
The real options investment theory shows that greater uncertainty about market revenues reduces current R&D investment by increasing the value of waiting. This paper presents empirical evidence that patent protection mitigates the effect market uncertainty on R&D investment.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 06-056
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
- Subject
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Real Options Theory
Uncertainty
R&D
Intellectual Property Protection
Censored Regression
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Czarnitzki, Dirk
Toole, Andrew A.
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
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Mannheim
- (when)
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2006
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Czarnitzki, Dirk
- Toole, Andrew A.
- Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
Time of origin
- 2006