Quantity or quality? Knowledge alliances and their effects on patenting

Hanna Hottenrott; Cindy Lopes-Bentoyz

doi:10.1093/icc/dtu019

Quantity or quality? Knowledge alliances and their effects on patenting

Hanna Hottenrott
, Cindy Lopes-Bentoyz

Heinrich-Heine-University
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
University of Zurich

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This study examines a sample of R&D-active manufacturing firms over the period 2000–2009 and shows that knowledge alliances have a positive effect on patenting in terms of both quantity and quality. More interestingly, we distinguish between alliances that aim at joint creation of new knowledge and alliances that seek knowledge exchange. The results suggest that firms engaged in creation alliances subsequently file more valuable patents as measured by the number of forward citations. On the other hand, knowledge exchange alliances are associated with patent quantity, but not quality.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	981-1011
Number of pages	31
Journal	Industrial and Corporate Change
Volume	24
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtu019
State	Published - Oct 2015
Externally published	Yes

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