Concordance and complementarity in IP instruments

Marco Grazzi, Chiara Piccardo () and Cecilia Vergari ()
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Chiara Piccardo: Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università di Verona

No dipe0003, DISCE - Working Papers del Dipartimento di Politica Economica from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche (DISCE)

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.

Keywords: Trademarks; Patents; Innovation; Intellectual Property; Complementarity; Concordance; Technological proximity; Firm performance; Firm growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L25 O31 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 49
Date: 2019-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-cse, nep-ino, nep-ipr, nep-knm, nep-sbm and nep-tid
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