Publications of the Research Unit Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics

• Are German companies in clearence sale?
• M&A activity in telecommunications sector on the rise
• M&A consultancy sector faces a record year
• New M&A wave in the European energy sector?
• Private equity firms increasingly…

This book analyses the impact of patent rights regimes in universities. In particular, it investigates whether patent rights in research results provide incentives to patent and commercially exploit research…

Technological change is often hypothesized as one of the main drivers of merger activities. This paper analyzes the role of technology in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) at the firm level. Based on a newly…