Do firms really benefit from Open Innovation? An econometric assessment based on transfers of patent ownership rights. KU Leuven
Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation (main work address Leuven), Research Unit KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP)
This study investigates the relationship between firms’ activity on markets for technology and their performance. Specifically, the study utilizes novel data on the transfer of patent ownership rights – patent sales – in order to generate new insights on how firms can benefit from external technology acquisition strategies. Existing scholarship describes a trend whereby firms, to an increasing extent, rely on external sources of technology to ...