Concordance and complementarity in IP instruments
JRC Working Papers on Corporate R&D and Innovation No 04/2019
This work investigates the relationship between proxies of innovation activities, such as patents and trademarks, and firm performance in terms of revenues, growth and profitability. By resorting to the virtual universe of Italian manufacturing affirms this work provides a rather complete picture of the Intellectual Property (IP) strategies pursued by Italian firms, in terms of patents and trademarks, and we study whether the two instruments for protecting IP exhibit complementarity or substitutability. In addition, and to our knowledge novel, we propose a measure of concordance (or proximity) between the patents and trademarks owned by the same firm and we then investigate whether such concordance exert any effect on performance.
GRAZZI Marco;
PICCARDO Chiara;
VERGARI Cecilia;
2019-11-06
European Commission
JRC117498
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