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A Study of Inventors

Incentives, Productivity, and Mobility

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  1. Karin Hoisl
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Part of the book series: Innovation und Entrepreneurship (INNOV)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. Introduction

    • Karin Hoisl
    Pages 1-9

  3. A Closer Look at Inventor Productivity — What Makes the Difference?

    • Karin Hoisl
    Pages 11-63

  4. Tracing Mobile Inventors — The Causality between Inventor Mobility and Inventor Productivity

    • Karin Hoisl
    Pages 65-119

  5. Institutionalized Incentives for Ingenuity — Patent Value and the German Employees’ Inventions Act

    • Karin Hoisl
    Pages 121-154

  6. Summary of the Results and Outlook

    • Karin Hoisl
    Pages 155-159

  7. Erratum

    • Karin Hoisl
    Pages E1-E1

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 161-199
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About this book

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 author

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Study of Inventors

  • Book Subtitle: Incentives, Productivity, and Mobility

  • Authors: Karin Hoisl

  • Series Title: Innovation und Entrepreneurship

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8350-9492-5

  • Publisher: Deutscher Universitätsverlag Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics (German Language)

  • Copyright Information: Gabler Verlag | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-8350-0650-8Published: 25 January 2007

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-8350-9492-5Published: 20 December 2007

  • Series ISSN: 2627-1168

  • Series E-ISSN: 2627-1184

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 200

  • Topics: Innovation/Technology Management

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