Dietmar Harhoff

Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

Director

Marstallplatz 1

Munich, Bayern 80539

Germany

http://www.ip.mpg.de

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Honorary Professor

Munich, 80539

Germany

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

London

United Kingdom

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (53)

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To Be Financed or Not… - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital-Financing

ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 09-003
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 23 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2013
Carolin Häussler, Dietmar Harhoff and Elisabeth Mueller
University of Passau, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Catholic University of Lille - IESEG School of Management
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signaling, certification, liabilities of newness, venture capital, patent system, biotechnology

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The Effects of Entrepreneurship Education

GESY Discussion Paper No. 269
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 08 Aug 2009
Richard Weber, Georg von Graevenitz and Dietmar Harhoff
LMU Entrepreneurship Center, Queen Mary, School of Business and Management and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, Bayes’ Rule, learning, signals

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Outline for a German Strategy for Artificial Intelligence

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 14 Aug 2018
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung and Stiftung Neue Verantwortung
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Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Policy, AI, research network

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Venture Capitalists' Evaluations of Start-Up Teams: Trade-Offs, Knock-Out Criteria, and the Impact of VC Experience

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 13 Feb 2007
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne - MTEI, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and TUM School of Management,Technical University of Munich
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venture teams, conjoint analysis, team characteristics

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Position Statement of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition of 6 February 2024 on the Commission's Proposal for a Regulation on Standard Essential Patents

Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 24-03
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 08 Feb 2024
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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Standard essential patents (SEPs), Draft Regulation on SEPs, ICT sector, compatibility standards, licensing of SEPs, Internet of Things (IoT), innovation, transparency, SEP-register, essentiality checks, FRAND determination, aggregate royalty, level of licensing, global SEP-licensing

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Social Welfare Gains from Innovation Commons: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 03 Sep 2021
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technolog (RMIT University), University of Kansas School of Law, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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innovation commons, economics of data, intellectual property, innovation policy

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Profiting from Voluntary Information Spillovers: How Users Benefit by Freely Revealing Their Innovations

Research Policy, Vol. 32, No. 10, 2003, MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4749-09
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 03 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2022
Dietmar Harhoff, Joachim Henkel and Eric A. von Hippel
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, TUM School of Management,Technical University of Munich and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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innovation, spillovers, diffusion, lead users

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The Impacts of Feed-In Tariffs on Innovation: Empirical Evidence from Germany

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4680
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 03 Apr 2014
University of Oldenburg, Chair of Innovation Economics, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and University of Oldenburg
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renewable energy promotion, feed-in tariffs, innovation, negative binomial regression

Invalid But Infringed? An Analysis of Germany's Bifurcated Patent Litigation System

in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 131, Part A, 2016, pp. 218-242, Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 14-14
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 02 May 2017
Center for European Economic Research (ZEW), Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Charles III University of MadridSanta Clara University - Leavey School of Business
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Litigation, innovation, patents, bifurcation, Germany

Invalid but Infringed? An Analysis of Germany's Bifurcated Patent Litigation System

ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 14-072
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 14 Oct 2014
Center for European Economic Research (ZEW), Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Charles III University of MadridSanta Clara University - Leavey School of Business
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litigation, innovation, patents, bifurcation, Germany

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The Economics of Replication

Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 17-03
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 31 Jan 2017
University of the Bundeswehr Munich, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
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Replication, economics of science, science policy, economic methodology

The Economics of Replication

DIW Berlin Discussion Paper No. 1640
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 09 Feb 2017
University of the Bundeswehr Munich, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
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Replication, economics of science, science policy, economic methodology

The Economics of Replication

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10533
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 05 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
University of the Bundeswehr Munich, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
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replication, economics of science, science policy, economic methodology

Should There Be Lower Taxes on Patent Income?

Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 18-18, Also published in: Research Policy Volume 50, Issue 1, January 2021, lso published as CRC Discussion Paper No. 177
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 25 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2023
Fabian Gaessler, Bronwyn H. Hall and Dietmar Harhoff
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, University of California at Berkeley and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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patent box, IP box, innovation tax, BEPS, EPO, invention incentive, patent ownership

Should There Be Lower Taxes on Patent Income?

NBER Working Paper No. w24843
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 01 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 20 May 2023
Fabian Gaessler, Bronwyn H. Hall and Dietmar Harhoff
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, University of California at Berkeley and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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Great Data, Nice Tale, But What's the Message? The OHIM/EPO Study on the Economic Relevance of IP-Intensive Industries in the EU

IIC: international review of intellectual property and competition law,Vol. 45.2014, Issue 6, pp 617-620, Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Discussion Paper No. 1
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 01 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2014
Annette Kur and Dietmar Harhoff
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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IP-intensive industries; IP and economics; OHIM/EPO Study; European Observatory; IP enforcement.

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A Novel Technology-Industry Concordance Table Based on Linked Inventor-Establishment Data

Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 17-10
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 05 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2017
Matthias Dorner and Dietmar Harhoff
Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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patents, international patent classification, industry classification, concordance, linked inventor-establishment data

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Separating Patent Wheat from Chaff: Would the U.S. Benefit from Adopting a Patent Post-Grant Review?

Research Policy 43 (2014), pp. 1649-1659, DOI:10.1016/j.respol.2014.07.002.
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 16 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2015
Stuart J.H. Graham and Dietmar Harhoff
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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Patents; Litigation; Innovation policy; Comparative institutional analysis

Bargaining Failure and Freedom to Operate: Re-Evaluating the Effect of Patents on Cumulative Innovation

Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 19-11, August 2019
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 04 Sep 2019
Fabian Gaessler, Dietmar Harhoff and Stefan Sorg
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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cumulative innovation, patents, bargaining failure, freedom to operate, opposition

Bargaining Failure and Freedom to Operate: Re-Evaluating the Effect of Patents on Cumulative Innovation

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13969
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 07 Oct 2019
Fabian Gaessler, Dietmar Harhoff and Stefan Sorg
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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bargaining failure, Cumulative innovation, freedom to operate, opposition, patents

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Recent Research on the Economics of Patents

NBER Working Paper No. w17773
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 21 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2023
Bronwyn H. Hall and Dietmar Harhoff
University of California at Berkeley and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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Recent Research on the Economics of Patents

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 4, pp. 541-565, 2012
Posted: 01 Sep 2012
Bronwyn H. Hall and Dietmar Harhoff
University of California at Berkeley and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

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Filling the Gap: The Consequences of Collaborator Loss in Corporate R&D

Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 22-17
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 03 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2024
Bocconi University - Department of Management and Technology, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
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Collaboration, mobility, innovation, inventors, patents, teams

Filling the Gap: The Consequences of Collaborator Loss in Corporate R&D

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15618
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 08 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2022
Bocconi University - Department of Management and Technology, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
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collaboration, mobility, innovation, inventors, patents, teams

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Research, Innovation and Technological Performance in Germany

EFI Report
Number of pages: 117 Posted: 03 Sep 2008
Technische Universität München - Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - Social Science Research Center Berlin, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI)Karlsruhe University - KIT, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, National University of Singapore (NUS) - Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS), Maastricht University - Department of Economics, Fraunhofer Institut für Systemtechnik und Innovationsforschung and Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)
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Public policy, Research, Innovation

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The Role of Patents for VC Financing

Babson College, Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC) 2008, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, 2008
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 04 Mar 2009
Carolin Häussler, Dietmar Harhoff and Elisabeth Mueller
University of Passau, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Catholic University of Lille - IESEG School of Management
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Entrepreneurship

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How to Measure Patent Thickets: A Novel Approach

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 14 Jul 2009
Georg von Graevenitz, Stefan Wagner and Dietmar Harhoff
Queen Mary, School of Business and Management, ESMT European School of Management and Technology and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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patenting, patent thickets, patent portfolio races, complexity

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Conflict Resolution, Public Goods and Patent Thickets

ESMT Working Paper No. 12-04 (R1)
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 13 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 21 May 2013
Dietmar Harhoff, Georg von Graevenitz and Stefan Wagner
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Queen Mary, School of Business and Management and ESMT European School of Management and Technology
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intellectual property, opposition, patent litigation, patent thickets, patents, post-grant review

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Post-Issue Patent "Quality Control": A Comparative Study of Us Patent Re-Examinations and European Patent Oppositions

NBER Working Paper No. w8807
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 21 Feb 2002 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2022
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business, University of California at Berkeley, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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Individual Determinants of Inventor Productivity: Report and Preliminary Results with Evidence from Linked Human Capital and Patent Data

ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 15-001
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 19 Feb 2015
University of Würzburg, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max-Planck-Institute for Innovation and Competition and Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)University of Würzburg - Business Administration & Economics
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Research, Innovation and Technological Performance in Germany (Report 2009)

EFI Report 2009
Number of pages: 140 Posted: 07 Jul 2009
Technische Universität München - Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - Social Science Research Center Berlin, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI)Karlsruhe University - KIT, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, University of Strasbourg, National University of Singapore (NUS) - Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS), Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Fraunhofer Institut für Systemtechnik und Innovationsforschung, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Public policy, Research, Innovation

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Candidate Screening for the Recruitment of Critical Research and Development Workers – A Report and Preliminary Results with Evidence from Experimental Data from German High-Tech Firms

ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 15-002
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 19 Feb 2015
University of Würzburg, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max-Planck-Institute for Innovation and Competition and Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)University of Würzburg - Business Administration & Economics
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Research, Innovation and Technological Performance in Germany (Report 2010)

EFI Report, 2010
Number of pages: 160 Posted: 13 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2014
Technische Universität München - Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - Social Science Research Center Berlin, University of Hohenheim, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, National University of Singapore (NUS) - Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) and BETA - University of Strasbourg
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Public Policy, Research, Innovation

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Exploring the Opaqueness of the Patent System - Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 15-02
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 05 May 2015
Dietmar Harhoff and Sebastian Stoll
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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patent value; opaqueness; accelerated examination; patent opposition; European Patent Office (EPO)

Languages, Fees and the International Scope of Patenting

In: V. Ginsburgh, S. Weber (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 403-422, Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 15-04
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 09 May 2015 Last Revised: 02 May 2017
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Free University of Brussels - Solvay Business School and Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management
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patents, patent fees, patent validation, renewal fees, translation costs

Languages, Fees and the International Scope of Patenting

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP7241
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 07 Apr 2009
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Free University of Brussels - Solvay Business School
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patent fees, patent validation, patents, renewal fees, translation costs

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Prospects for Improving U.S. Patent Quality Via Post-Grant Opposition

NBER Working Paper No. w9731
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 25 May 2003 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2022
University of California at Berkeley, Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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The Power of Individual-Level Drivers of Inventive Performance

ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 15-080
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 04 Jan 2016
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)University of Würzburg - Business Administration & Economics, University of Würzburg, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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Inventive performance, individual drivers, patent history, survey

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Harmonizing and Combining Large Datasets - an Application to Firm-Level Patent and Accounting Data

NBER Working Paper No. w15851
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 29 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2023
University of Camerino, Department of Economics, Management and Statistics, Bocconi University - Department of Management and Technology, Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), University of California at Berkeley and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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Research, Innovation and Technological Performance in Germany (Report 2011)

Number of pages: 192 Posted: 09 Mar 2011
Technische Universität München - Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - Social Science Research Center Berlin, University of Hohenheim, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, National University of Singapore (NUS) - Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) and BETA - University of Strasbourg
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Public Policy, Research, Innovation

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Profiting from Data Commons: Theory, Evidence, and Strategy Implications

Jason Potts, Andrew Torrance, Dietmar Harhoff, Eric von Hippel (2023) Profiting from Data Commons: Theory, Evidence, and Strategy Implications. Strategy Science, Articles in Advance 15 Sep 2023 . https://doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2021.0080, MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 7061-24
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 22 Mar 2024
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technolog (RMIT University), University of Kansas School of Law, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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diffusion of innovation, ecosystems, market failures, open innovation, patents, intellectual property, technology strategy

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Financing Apprenticeship Training: Evidence from Germany

NBER Working Paper No. w4557
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 29 Dec 2003 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2022
Dietmar Harhoff and Thomas J. Kane
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Public Policy & Social Research
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Digital Consumer Law, Competition and the (Un-)Informed Consumer: Evidence from a Survey among German Consumers

Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 25-06
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 02 Apr 2025
Michael E. Rose, Jörg Hoffmann and Dietmar Harhoff
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Law Network - Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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Consumer Awareness, Digital Consumer Law, Regulatory Effectiveness, Representative Survey, Germany

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Determinants of Opposition Against Epo Patent Grants - the Case of Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 Dec 2002
Dietmar Harhoff and Markus G. Reitzig
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and University of Vienna
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Citation 15
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Patents, litigation, intellectual property rights, European Patent Office

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Inventors (But Never Asked): Evidence from the Patval-Eu Survey

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5752
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 17 Aug 2006
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, University of Maastricht - Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), Department of Management, Bocconi University - CESPRI, University of Chile - Department of Economics, Ministère de l'Education Nationale et de la Recherche, Bocconi University - Department of Management and Technology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, University of Turin - Department Cultures, Politics and Society, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) - Department of Economics and Business (DEB), Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Université Catholique de Lyon - ESDES School of Business and Management, Charles III University of Madrid - Department of Business Administration, CERM Foundation (Rome, Italy), University of Sussex, Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE), Charles III University of Madrid - Department of Business Administration, University of Sussex - The Freeman Centre, Bank of Italy and Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE)
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Inventor, patent, incentives, innovation, patent system, patent value

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The Value of European Patents

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP6848
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 17 Jun 2008
Alfonso Gambardella, Dietmar Harhoff and Bart Verspagen
Bocconi University - Department of Management and Technology, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and University of Maastricht and UNU-MERIT
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Intellectual property rights, patent citations, patent claims, patent references, patent value, patent value indicators, patents

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Can Post-Grant Reviews Improve Patent System Design? A Twin Study of Us and European Patents

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5680
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 02 Aug 2006
Stuart J.H. Graham and Dietmar Harhoff
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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Patent system, post-grant review, opposition, litigation

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Modelling the Duration of Patent Examination at the European Patent Office

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5283
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 18 Nov 2005
Dietmar Harhoff and Stefan Wagner
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and ESMT European School of Management and Technology
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Patents, survival analysis, patent examination, European Patent Office

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Digitalization and Signatures: Evidence from a Survey among German Consumers

Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 25-05
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 02 Apr 2025
Michael E. Rose, Jörg Hoffmann and Dietmar Harhoff
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Law Network - Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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Legal awareness, Digital transformation, Administrative burden, Handwritten signature, Representative Survey, Germany

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Inventor Returns and Mobility

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 11449
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 05 Dec 2024
Dietmar Harhoff, David Heller and Paul P. Momtaz
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Dresden University of Technology
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inventor returns, labor mobility, patents, inventive productivity

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Is the German Apprenticeship System a Panacea for the Us Labour Market?

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 17 Nov 2001
Dietmar Harhoff and Thomas J. Kane
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Public Policy & Social Research
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Apprenticeship training, employment, human capital, labour market

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Incidence and Growth of Patent Thickets - the Impact of Technological Opportunities and Complexity

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP6900
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 20 Aug 2008
Georg von Graevenitz, Stefan Wagner and Dietmar Harhoff
Queen Mary, School of Business and Management, ESMT European School of Management and Technology and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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complexity, patent portfolios, patent thickets, patenting, technological opportunities

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Patent Validation at the Country Level - The Role of Fees and Translation Costs

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP6565
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 06 Jun 2008
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, European Patent Office and Free University of Brussels - Solvay Business School
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gravity model, patent fees, renewal fees, validation fees

The Economic Value of Patent Portfolios

Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, DOI: 10.1111/jems.12210, Forthcoming
Posted: 12 May 2017
Alfonso Gambardella, Dietmar Harhoff and Bart Verspagen
Bocconi University - Department of Management and Technology, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and University of Maastricht and UNU-MERIT

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Patents, Patent Portfolios, Inventors, Technical Change, Intellectual Property Rights

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Truly Standard-Essential Patents? A Semantics-Based Analysis

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14726
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 20 May 2020
Lorenz Brachtendorf, Fabian Gaessler and Dietmar Harhoff
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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patents, standard essentiality, standard-setting organizations, standards

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Social Ties for Labor Market Access - Lessons from the Migration of East German Inventors

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11601
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 07 Nov 2016
Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Government of the Federal Republic of Germany - Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
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East Germany, inventors, migration, networks, social ties, transition

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To Be Financed or Not - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP7115
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 18 Feb 2009
Carolin Häussler, Dietmar Harhoff and Elisabeth Mueller
University of Passau, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Catholic University of Lille - IESEG School of Management
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biotechnology, intellectual property rights, patents, R&D, venture capital

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Profiting from Voluntary Information Spillovers: How Users Benefit by Freely Revealing Their Innovations

Research Policy, Vol. 32, pp. 1752-1769, 2003
Posted: 13 Feb 2007
Dietmar Harhoff, Joachim Henkel and Eric A. von Hippel
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, TUM School of Management,Technical University of Munich and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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innovation, spillovers, diffusion, lead user

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R&D Spillovers, Technological Proximity, and Productivity Growth - Evidencs from German Panel Data

Schmalenbach Business Review, Vol. 52, pp. 238-260, July 2000
Posted: 11 Jun 2002
Dietmar Harhoff
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

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R&D, spillovers, productivity growth

52.

Lending Relationships in Germany: Empirical Results from Survey Data

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 1917
Posted: 21 Sep 1998
Dietmar Harhoff and Timm Korting
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research - International Finance and Financial Management

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53.

Legal Form, Growth and Exit of West German Firms: Empirical Results for Manufacturing, Construction, Trade and Service Industries

CEPR Discussion Paper Series 1401
Posted: 04 Dec 1996
Michael J. Woywode, Dietmar Harhoff and Konrad O. Stahl
ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research - International Finance and Financial Management, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and University of Mannheim - Department of Economics

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