Combining Patent Law Expertise with R&amp;D for Patenting Performance

Somaya, Deepak; Williamson, Ian O.; Zhang, Xiaomeng

doi:10.1287/orsc.1070.0292

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“…In line with the literature (see e.g. Hall and Ziedonis, 2001;Somaya et al, 2007), the remaining overdispersion, as reported the Lagrange…”

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“…Ahuja and Katila, 2001, Hall and Ziedonis, 2001, Somaya et al, 2007. Size is measured by the book value of the firms' tangible assets (ASSETS).…”

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“…First, patents are a widely used and recognized measure in the literature. 5 Indeed, they do not only constitute a measure of technological effectiveness of R&D which is comparable across firms and even industries (Katila, 2001;Penner-Hahn and Shaver, 2005;Somaya et al, 2007), they also confer property rights upon the assignee and therefore have a direct economic impact. Second, given that forward citations per patent are a recognized measure of the quality of the underlying technology or invention, using patents as our key indicator allows us to analyze the impact of the (type of) collaboration on both, patent quantity as well as quality, an aspect that so far received much less attention.…”

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Quantity or Quality? Collaboration Strategies in Research and Development and Incentives to Patent

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Lopes-Bento²

2012

SSRN Journal

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Die Dis cus si on Pape rs die nen einer mög lichst schnel len Ver brei tung von neue ren For schungs arbei ten des ZEW. Die Bei trä ge lie gen in allei ni ger Ver ant wor tung der Auto ren und stel len nicht not wen di ger wei se die Mei nung des ZEW dar.Dis cus si on Papers are inten ded to make results of ZEW research prompt ly avai la ble to other eco no mists in order to encou ra ge dis cus si on and sug gesti ons for revi si ons. The aut hors are sole ly respon si ble for the con tents which do not neces sa ri ly repre sent the opi ni on of the ZEW. Non-technical summaryCollaborative research and development (R&D) may be seen as a response to shifting knowledge environments enabling firms to cope with technological challenges. As stressed by Jones (2008), innovation increases the stock of knowledge and hence the "educational burden" of future cohorts of innovators. One way to compensate this development may be specialization in expertise. However, narrowing expertise requires firms to seek complementary know-how elsewhere, for instance by collaborating in knowledge-intensive business areas like R&D.While numerous previous studies found R&D alliances to be instruments used by firms to acquire new skills and to source specialized know-how (e.g. Hamel, 1991;Hagedoorn, 1993;Hagedoorn and Schakenraad, 1994;Powell et al., 1996), none of these studies paid attention to differences in the objective of the R&D collaboration and how these differences affect R&D productivity. Collaboration aiming at the joint generation of new knowledge, that is firms willing to undertake an R&D project jointly, may differ substantially from alliances aiming at the explicit exchange of already existing knowledge. This difference may translate into differences with respect to the alliances' effects on R&D productivity and eventually innovation output. Furthermore, while previous empirical studies found evidence for a positive effect of collaborations on innovation output, often measured in the number of patents, the effects on the technological value of these patents has not been studied to the same extent.Using count data models controlling for unobserved heterogeneity for R&D-active manufacturing firms in Flanders in the period 2000 to 2009, this study aims to fill these gaps. We study the effects of R&D collaboration on patent activity in terms of quantity as well as quality differentiating between collaborative agreements by their declared objectives. The results suggest that being engaged in knowledge exchange alliances leads to more patent applications filed by the firms involved. However, once patent quality -as measured by the number forwards citations received in a five-year-window of the application date -is considered, we find knowledge creation alliances to lead to more valuable patents. In line with recent literature on strategic patenting, these results may indicate that patenting of collaborating firms is not only used to protect intellectual property, but also as a strategic tool. In other words, joint R&D may provide i...

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“…In line with the literature (see e.g. Hall and Ziedonis, 2001;Somaya et al, 2007), the remaining overdispersion, as reported the Lagrange…”

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confidence: 91%

“…Ahuja and Katila, 2001, Hall and Ziedonis, 2001, Somaya et al, 2007. Size is measured by the book value of the firms' tangible assets (ASSETS).…”

Section: Control Variablesmentioning

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Quantity or Quality? Collaboration Strategies in Research and Development and Incentives to Patent

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2012

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“…Studies on the relationship between R&D capability and patentability are very wide in their range, have been deeply conducted and appeared to generally have positive effects (Artz et al, 2010;Hall and Bagchi-Sen, 2002;Hall and Ziedonis, 2001;Lin et al, 2006;Reitzig and Puranam, 2009;Romijn and Albaladejo, 2002;Somaya et al, 2007;Souitaris, 2002). Romijn and Albaladejo (2002), in their study on 33 of small enterprises related to electronics and software in southeastern district of England, proved that the capabilities of R&D has a correlation with the performance.…”

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Impacts of innovation type SME’s R&D capability on patent and new product development

Kim

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Purpose This study aims to verify the effectiveness and efficiency of corporate technology innovation activities. Design/methodology/approach This study empirically analyzes the effects of research and development (R&D) capability on patent and new product development achievements on innovation-type small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by using the “Report on Korean Innovation Survey 2010: Manufacturing Sector” data released by the Science and Technology Policy Institute. Findings The results of the study indicate that staffing of the concentration of R&D human resource team and efforts toward open innovation are essential factors for the creation of corporate performance.The number of persons of the concentration R&D team in particular makes up essential resources for patent acquisition and new product development. In addition, in case of an SME’s with relatively poor resources, it is necessary to acquire resources, both material and immaterial, learn from the external R&D activities and internalize those into key corporate capabilities rather than step up the R&D activities on their own. Originality/value The results of this study indicate that innovative small enterprises need to secure the number of R&D human resource members for maintaining sustainable competitiveness and securing market share. Therefore, a strategy is needed that would enable employing and raising excellent human resource in the quantitative and qualitative aspects. However, in the circumstances that small enterprises suffer difficulty in securing professional human resource for R&D compared to large enterprises, as there is a limitation for securing human resource for R&D from only the dimension of enterprises, governmental and political support is thought to be necessary for securing good-quality human resource for R&D. Accordingly, the results of this study provide many implications for the necessity of detailed methodology on how to expand professional human resource for R&D among supporting policies for technical innovative enterprises and to establish innovative strategies of enterprises.

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“…Ahuja and Katila, 2001; Hall and Ziedonis, 2001; Somaya et al, 2007). Size is measured by the book value of the firms' tangible assets (assets).…”

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Quantity or quality? Knowledge alliances and their effects on patenting

Hottenrott

Lopes-Bento

2014

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The working papers published in the Series constitute work in progress circulated to stimulate discussion and critical comments. Views expressed represent exclusively the authors' own opinions and do not necessarily reflect those of the editor. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThis study shows for a large sample of R&D-active manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2009 that knowledge alliances have a positive effect on patenting in terms of both quantity and quality. However, when distinguishing between alliances that aim at joint creation of new knowledge and alliances that aim at the exchange of knowledge, results suggest that creation alliances lead to more valuable patents as they receive significantly more forward citations per patent. Knowledge exchange alliances, on the other hand, are associated with patent quantity, but not quality.

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Combining Patent Law Expertise with R&D for Patenting Performance

Cited by 145 publications

References 54 publications

Quantity or Quality? Collaboration Strategies in Research and Development and Incentives to Patent

Quantity or Quality? Collaboration Strategies in Research and Development and Incentives to Patent

Impacts of innovation type SME’s R&D capability on patent and new product development

Quantity or quality? Knowledge alliances and their effects on patenting

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