This paper shows that firms engage in horizontal mergers and acquisitions to pre-empt competition in technology markets. Making use of the patent application procedure at the european patent office we introduce a measure for potential entry barriers in technology markets
This paper analyses successive markets where the intra-market linkage depends on the technology used...
Research papers on innovation activity share the view that whenever an invention is made available b...
The increasing importance of patents to the firm’s strategy goes beyond protecting innovations from ...
This paper shows that firms engage in horizontal mergers and acquisitions to pre-empt competition in...
This paper shows that firms engage in horizontal mergers and acquisitions to pre-empt competition in...
This paper investigates the motive of pre-empting technology competition through mergers and acquisi...
Gaining access to technological assets and patents, in particular, has long been a major motive and ...
Gaining access to technological assets and patents, in particular, has long been a major motive and ...
Horizontal mergers, entry, and efficiency defences* David Spector (MIT)^ May, 2001 (first draft: Apr...
Big companies and small innovation factories possess different advantages in a patent contest. While...
Drawing on the resource-based view of the firm, we examine the effect of technological competition o...
Technological change is often hypothesized as one of the main drivers of merger activities. This pap...
In recent years, firms have increasingly contributed to and been confronted with a patent landscape ...
Theory predicts that horizontal acquisitions can effectively increase incumbent firms’ market power ...
Innovation activities in high technology industries provide considerable challenges for technology a...
This paper analyses successive markets where the intra-market linkage depends on the technology used...
Research papers on innovation activity share the view that whenever an invention is made available b...
The increasing importance of patents to the firm’s strategy goes beyond protecting innovations from ...
This paper shows that firms engage in horizontal mergers and acquisitions to pre-empt competition in...
This paper shows that firms engage in horizontal mergers and acquisitions to pre-empt competition in...
This paper investigates the motive of pre-empting technology competition through mergers and acquisi...
Gaining access to technological assets and patents, in particular, has long been a major motive and ...
Gaining access to technological assets and patents, in particular, has long been a major motive and ...
Horizontal mergers, entry, and efficiency defences* David Spector (MIT)^ May, 2001 (first draft: Apr...
Big companies and small innovation factories possess different advantages in a patent contest. While...
Drawing on the resource-based view of the firm, we examine the effect of technological competition o...
Technological change is often hypothesized as one of the main drivers of merger activities. This pap...
In recent years, firms have increasingly contributed to and been confronted with a patent landscape ...
Theory predicts that horizontal acquisitions can effectively increase incumbent firms’ market power ...
Innovation activities in high technology industries provide considerable challenges for technology a...
This paper analyses successive markets where the intra-market linkage depends on the technology used...
Research papers on innovation activity share the view that whenever an invention is made available b...
The increasing importance of patents to the firm’s strategy goes beyond protecting innovations from ...
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