Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Marco Grazzi
Author-X-Name-First: Marco
Author-X-Name-Last: Grazzi
Author-Email: marco.grazzi@unicatt.it
Author-Workplace-Name: DISCE, Università Cattolica
Author-Name: Chiara Piccardo
Author-X-Name-First: Chiara
Author-X-Name-Last: Piccardo
Author-Email: chiara.piccardo@univr.it
Author-Workplace-Name: Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università di Verona
Author-Name: Cecilia Vergari
Author-X-Name-First: Cecilia
Author-X-Name-Last: Vergari
Author-Email: cecilia.vergari@unibo.it
Author-Workplace-Name: Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università di Bologna
Title: Concordance and complementarity in IP instruments
Abstract: This work investigates the relationship between proxies of innovation activities, such as patents and trademarks, and firm performance in terms of revenues and growth. By resorting to the virtual universe of Italian manufacturing firms we provide a rather complete picture of the innovation activities of Italian firms, in terms of patents and trademarks, and we study whether the two instruments for protecting Intellectual Property (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 appears to exert any effect on performance.
Length: 49
Creation-Date: 2019-01
File-URL: http://dipartimenti.unicatt.it/politica-economica-DIPE0003.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2019
Number: dipe0003
Classification-JEL: O31, O34, L25
Keywords: Trademarks, Patents, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Complementarity, Concordance, Technological proximity, Firm performance, Firm growth
Handle: RePEc:ctc:serie5:dipe0003