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Inter-firm technology transfer: Partnership-embedded licensing or standard licensing agreements?

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Hagedoorn, John () (UNU-MERIT and University of Maastricht)
Lorenz-Orlean, Stefanie () (University of Maastricht)
Kranenburg, Hans () (Radboud University Nijmegen)

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When companies decide to engage in technology transfer through licensing to other firms, they have two basic options: to use standard licensing contracts or to set-up more elaborate partnership-embedded licensing agreements. We find that broader partnership-embedded licensing agreements are preferred with higher levels of technological sophistication of industries, with greater perceived effectiveness of secrecy as a means of appropriability, and when licensors are smaller than their licensees. Innovative differentials between companies, innovative supremacy of the licensor, and market and technological overlap between partners appear to have no effect on the preference for a particular form of licensing.

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Keywords: technology transfer; licensing; inter-firm partnership; innovation;

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O31 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
O34 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Intellectual Property Rights
D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances

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