A Study of Inventors
Incentives, Productivity, and Mobility
Authors: Hoisl, Karin
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Human capital is one of the main sources of sustainable competitive advantage of firms. However, employees can move to another firm taking with them part of the knowledge stock of the former employer. Hence, the mobility of key Research & Development (R&D) personnel jeopardizes the innovative ability of a firm and consequently its competitiveness. This poses major challenges to the management of firms, but also to policy makers since innovation has a large share in economic growth and technological leadership of countries.
Karin Hoisl is concerned with innovation processes and the involved inventors. Her focus is on the determinants of inventor productivity, the relationship between inventor mobility and inventor productivity, and the establishment of efficient incentive systems to commit key inventors to the firm. A novel and unique dataset is employed, including information on more than 3 000 German inventors from a recent survey as well as information on almost 40 000 European patents. - About the authors
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Dr. Karin Hoisl promovierte bei Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D. am Institut für Innovationsforschung, Technologiemanagement und Entrepreneurship der Universität München. Seit September 2006 ist sie Habilitandin am Lehrstuhl von Prof. Harhoff.
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-9
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A Closer Look at Inventor Productivity — What Makes the Difference?
Pages 11-63
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Tracing Mobile Inventors — The Causality between Inventor Mobility and Inventor Productivity
Pages 65-119
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Institutionalized Incentives for Ingenuity — Patent Value and the German Employees’ Inventions Act
Pages 121-154
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Summary of the Results and Outlook
Pages 155-159
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- A Study of Inventors
- Book Subtitle
- Incentives, Productivity, and Mobility
- Authors
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- Karin Hoisl
- Series Title
- Innovation und Entrepreneurship
- Copyright
- 2007
- Publisher
- Deutscher Universitätsverlag
- Copyright Holder
- Gabler Verlag | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-8350-9492-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-8350-9492-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-8350-0650-8
- Series ISSN
- 2627-1168
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 200
- Topics
