Use of Trade Secrets to Protect Innovations

Use of Trade Secrets to Protect Innovations

Client/Allowance

European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights, Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market

Period: 01.04.2015 – 30.09.2016

The project investigates the economic importance of trade secrets (TS) and their relationship to intellectual property rights (IR) and other appropriability mechanisms. The study will be composed of two parts: A descriptive part assessing the contribution of TS in the EU economy and an econometric part analyses the determinants of a firm’s usage of TS and IPR.

Unit
Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics

Project members

Christian Rammer

Christian Rammer

Project Coordinator
Deputy

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Dirk Crass

Dirk Crass

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Client/Allowance

Selected Publications

Protecting Innovation Through Patents and Trade Secrets: Determinants and Performance Impacts for Firms with a Single Innovation

Crass, Dirk, Francisco Garcia Valero, Francesco Pitton and Christian Rammer (2016), Protecting Innovation Through Patents and Trade Secrets: Determinants and Performance Impacts for Firms with a Single Innovation, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 16-061, Mannheim, published in: International Journal of the Economics of Business.

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Contact

Christian Rammer
Deputy
Dr. Christian Rammer
Phone +49 (0)621 1235-184
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