ZEW Researcher Honoured with Best Paper Award

Paula Schliessler, researcher in the ZEW Research Department "Industrial Economics and International Management", was honoured with the Bent Dalum PhD Award 2013 at the DRUID Academy Conference in Aalborg, Denmark, in February 2013. The awarded paper entitled "The Effect of Patent Litigation on Firm Performance – Evidence for Germany" addresses the mechanisms of the German patent litigation system and the impacts of several litigation outcomes on the parties involved. The paper is available for download at www.zew.de/publication6919 as ZEW Discussion Paper No. 13-015.