Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Antonelli, Cristiano
Author-Email: cristiano.antonelli@unito.it
Author-Name: Crespi, Francesco
Author-Email: francesco.crespi@uniroma3.it
Author-Name: Scellato, Giuseppe
Author-Email: giuseppe.scellato@polito.it
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Turin
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.est.unito.it/
Title: Universities look beyond the patent policy discourse in their intellectual property strategies
Abstract:  This paper contributes the analysis of the persistence of innovation activities, as measured by different 
innovation indicators and explores its path dependent characteristics. The empirical analysis of firm level innovative 
activities for a sample of 451 Italian manufacturing companies observed during the years 1998-2006 confirms the 
presence of significant persistence in innovation. However, the levels of persistence as captured by the inter-temporal 
elasticity between the innovation indicators show significant variations according to the typology of innovation 
considered. The higher level of persistence is found for R&D investments, witnessing the actual presence of significant 
entry and exit barriers. Furthermore, we obtain a relatively higher persistence for product innovation than process innovation.
Length: 22 pages
Creation-Date: 2010-05
File-URL: http://www.est.unito.it/do/home.pl/Download?doc=/allegati_wp/wp2010dip_l_b/10_wp_momigliano.pdf
File-Format: Application/PDF
Handle: RePEc:uto:labeco:201010