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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 06-056

Classification
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
Real Options Theory
Uncertainty
R&D
Intellectual Property Protection
Censored Regression

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Czarnitzki, Dirk
Toole, Andrew A.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
(where)
Mannheim
(when)
2006

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Czarnitzki, Dirk
  • Toole, Andrew A.
  • Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)

Time of origin

  • 2006

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