R&D Collaboration with Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights

Review of Industrial Organization

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 183-204

  Czarnitzki, Dirk ^a,b   Hussinger, Katrin ^a,b,c   Schneider, Cédric ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^d Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Intellectual property; Patents; R D collaboration; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925519357     PISSN: 0889938X     EISSN: 15737160     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11151-015-9449-0     Document Type: Article

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