Gains and pains from licensing - patent-portfolios as strategic weapons in the cardiac rhythm management industry

Technovation

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 605-614

  Brockhoff, Klaus K ^a   Ernst, Holger ^b   Hundhausen, Eckhard ^c  

^a WHU OTTO BEISHEIM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c Baumannskamp 2   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; RISK MANAGEMENT; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

CARDIAC RHYTHM MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY;

PACEMAKERS;

EID: 0032634127     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4972(99)00065-6     Document Type: Article

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