2004
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2004.09.005
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Trademarks as an indicator of innovation and industrial change

Abstract: Abstract:As innovation becomes an ever more central issue for the development of firms and world economies, so the need for improved assessments of innovative performance grows more urgent. This paper suggests that trademark analysis can contribute in capturing relevant aspects of innovation phenomena and the process of industrial change. We propose trademarks as a complementary indicator in the portfolio of available empirical tools of innovation studies and industrial dynamics. Our empirical exploration is b… Show more

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“…This is a binary variable equal to one (1) if the establishment has intellectual property rights, having registered a brand, a patent or both. Companies use different strategies to innovate and develop new products, which are protected via patents or trademark registration in order to differentiate their products (Archibugi and Pianta, 1996;Mendonça et al, 2004).…”
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“…This is a binary variable equal to one (1) if the establishment has intellectual property rights, having registered a brand, a patent or both. Companies use different strategies to innovate and develop new products, which are protected via patents or trademark registration in order to differentiate their products (Archibugi and Pianta, 1996;Mendonça et al, 2004).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…in industries in which the rate of new firm formation tends to be higher (cf. Mendonça et al, 2004).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The highly signicant correlation of a rm's innovation activities and its use of trademarks conrms related studies (Mendonca et al, 2004;Greenhalgh and Rogers, 2012). Whether innovation activities lead to trademark registrations or the reverse, a rm's brands lead to innovation activities is not clear.…”
Section: Innovation Mattersmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…New trademarks are correlated with the introduction of new product innovations, what qualies trademarks as proxies for innovation (Mendonca et al, 2004;Jensen and Webster, 2009). But what causes this correlation?…”
Section: The Link Between Innovation and Trademarksmentioning
confidence: 99%