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List of contents
Preface
Carolina Castaldi, Joern Block and Meindert Flikkema
Part I: Bridging perspectives on trademarks and firms
1. Why and when do firms trademark? Bridging perspectives from industrial organisation, innovation and entrepreneurship
Carolina Castaldi, Joern Block and Meindert J Flikkema
2. Which firms use trademarks? Firm-level evidence from Germany on the role of distance, product quality and innovation
Dirk Crass
3. Are trademark counts a valid indicator of innovation? Results of an in-depth study of new Benelux trademarks filed by SMEs
Meindert Flikkema, Ard-Pieter De Man and Carolina Castaldi
4. Innovation activities and business cycles: are trademarks a leading indicator?
Charles A. W. deGrazia, Amanda Myers and Andrew A. Toole
Part II: Trademarks as Assets
5. On the price elasticity of demand for trademarks
Gaétan de Rassenfosse
6. From a distinctive sign to an exchangeable asset: exploring the U.S. market for trademark licensing
Edoardo Ferrucci, Maria Isabella Leone, Manuel Romagnoli and Andrea Toros
7. Firm market valuation and intellectual property assets
Mafini Dosso and Antonio Vezzani
Part III: Trademarks and IP strategies of Innovative Firms
8. Concordance and complementarity in IP instruments
Marco Grazzi, Chiara Piccardo and Cecilia Vergari
9. Are two better than one? Modelling the complementarity between patents and trademarks across industries
Patrick Llerena and Valentine Millot
10. The valuation of patent-trademark pairing as IP strategy: evidence from the USPTO
Grid Thoma
11. Why do innovators not apply for trademarks? The role of information asymmetries and collaborative innovation
Suma Athreye and Claudio Fassio
Part IV: Trademarks and Entrepreneurship
12. Trademarks and their association with Kirznerian entrepreneurs
Serhiy Lyalkov, Mónica Carmona, Emilio Congregado, Ana Millán and José María Millán
13. Overlap in external technology search locations and the breadth of IPR assets: lessons from the Security Software Industry
Szabolcs Szilárd Sebrek
14. Trademark or patent? The effects of market concentration, customer type and venture capital financing on start-ups’ initial IP applications
Geertjan De Vries, Enrico Pennings, Joern H. Block and Christian Fisch
About the author
Carolina Castaldi is Full Professor in Geography of Innovation at Utrecht University.
Jörn Block is Full Professor at University of Trier and Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Meindert J. Flikkema is Associate Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Summary
This book takes stock of the emerging academic research on how companies use trademarks. It collects a rich set of contributions from several research perspectives and disciplines and proposes an integrated view bridging different levels of analysis: individual, firm, industry, and country level.
