Karin Hoisl

Languages, Fees and the International Scope of Patenting (2009)

Harhoff, Dietmar, Hoisl, Karin

This paper analyzes firms’ choices regarding the geographic scope of patent protection within the European patent system. We develop an econometric model at the patent level to quantify the impact...

What Inspires Leisure Time Invention? (2009)

Davis, Lee N., Davis, Jerome, Hoisl, Karin

This paper seeks to understand the intriguing but only sparsely explored phenomenon of “leisure time invention,” where the main underlying idea for the new product or process occurs when the...

Patent Validation at the Country Level - The Role of Fees and Translation costs (2007)

Harhoff, Dietmar, Hoisl, Karin, Reichl, Bettina

One feature of the European patent system that is heavily criticized nowadays is related to its complex fragmentation and the induced cost burden for applicants. Once a patent is granted by the EPO,...

Does Mobility Increase the Productivity of Inventors? (2006)

Hoisl, Karin

Although labor mobility has been recognized as a key mechanism for transferring tacit knowledge, prior research on inventors has so far hardly discussed the impact of a move on inventive performance....

Does Mobility Increase the Productivity of Inventors? New Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Design (2006)

Hoisl, Karin

Although labor mobility has been recognized as a key mechanism to transfer tacit knowledge, prior research on inventors has so far neglected to address the question of the consequence of a move on...

Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Inventors (But Never Asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey (2006)

Harhoff, Dietmar, Hoisl, Karin

Based on a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patented inventions, this paper provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the...

Tracing Mobile Inventors – The Causality between Inventor Mobility and Inventor Productivity (2006)

Hoisl, Karin

This paper analyzes the causality between inventor productivity and inventor mobility. The results show that the level of education has no influence on inventor productivity. Making use of external...

Institutionalized Incentives for Ingenuity – Patent Value and the German Employees’ Inventions Act (2006)

Harhoff, Dietmar, Hoisl, Karin

Germany is one of few countries in which the monetary compensation for inventors is not only determined by negotiations between employer and employee-inventor, but also by relatively precise legal...

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Inventors (But Never Asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey

Brusoni, Stefano, Crespi, Gustavo, Francoz, Dominique, Gambardella, Alfonso, Garcia-Fontes, Walter, Geuna, Aldo, ...

Based on a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patented inventions, this paper provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the...

Patent Validation at the Country Level - The Role of Fees and Translation costs

Harhoff, Dietmar, Hoisl, Karin, Reichl, Bettina, Van Pottelsberghe, Bruno

One feature of the European patent system that is heavily criticized nowadays is related to its complex fragmentation and the induced cost burden for applicants. Once a patent is granted by the EPO,...

Does Mobility Increase the Productivity of Inventors?

Hoisl, Karin

Although labor mobility has been recognized as a key mechanism for transferring tacit knowledge, prior research on inventors has so far hardly discussed the impact of a move on inventive performance....

Patent Validation at the Country Level - The Role of Fees and Translation costs

Harhoff, Dietmar, Hoisl, Karin, Reichl, Bettina

One feature of the European patent system that is heavily criticized nowadays is related to its complex fragmentation and the induced cost burden for applicants. Once a patent is granted by the EPO,...

Tracing Mobile Inventors – The Causality between Inventor Mobility and Inventor Productivity

Hoisl, Karin

This paper analyzes the causality between inventor productivity and inventor mobility. The results show that the level of education has no influence on inventor productivity. Making use of external...

Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Inventors (But Never Asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey

Harhoff, Dietmar, Hoisl, Karin

Based on a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patented inventions, this paper provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the...

Institutionalized Incentives for Ingenuity – Patent Value and the German Employees’ Inventions Act

Harhoff, Dietmar, Hoisl, Karin

Germany is one of few countries in which the monetary compensation for inventors is not only determined by negotiations between employer and employee-inventor, but also by relatively precise legal...

Does Mobility Increase the Productivity of Inventors? New Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Design

Hoisl, Karin

Although labor mobility has been recognized as a key mechanism to transfer tacit knowledge, prior research on inventors has so far neglected to address the question of the consequence of a move on...

Everything you Always Wanted to Know about Inventors (but Never Asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey

Paola Giuri, Myriam Mariani, Stefano Brusoni, Gustavo Crespi, Dominique Francoz, Alfonso Gambardella, ...

By drawing information from a survey of inventors of 9,017 European patents (PatVal-EU), this paper provides novel and detailed data about the characteristics of the European inventors, the sources...

Analysing European and International Patent Citations: A Set of EPO Patent Database Building Blocks

Colin Webb, Hélène Dernis, Dietmar Harhoff, Karin Hoisl

This paper presents a preliminary set of European and international citation data tables designed to enable researchers to become familiar with the subject and undertake a range of analyses. It...

Does mobility increase the productivity of inventors?

Karin Hoisl

Inventor, Mobility, Quantile regression, Patent, F24 , F60, O31, O34,

Languages, Fees and the International Scope of Patenting

Dietmar Harhoff, Karin Hoisl

This paper analyzes firms’ choices regarding the geographic scope of patent protection within the European patent system. We develop an econometric model at the patent level to quantify the impact...

Languages, Fees and the International Scope of Patenting

Harhoff, Dietmar, Hoisl, Karin

This paper analyzes firms’ choices regarding the geographic scope of patent protection within the European patent system. We develop an econometric model at the patent level to quantify the impact...

What Inspires Leisure Time Invention?

Davis, Lee N., Davis, Jerome, Hoisl, Karin

This paper seeks to understand the intriguing but only sparsely explored phenomenon of “leisure time invention,” where the main underlying idea for the new product or process occurs when the...

Languages, Fees and the International Scope of Patenting

Harhoff, Dietmar, Hoisl, Karin

This paper analyzes firms’ choices regarding the geographic scope of patent protection within the European patent system. We develop an econometric model at the patent level to quantify the impact...