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The Patent Asset Index: A New Approach to Benchmark Patent Portfolios

Patent rankings and patent scoreboards are popular methods to benchmark patent portfolios of firms against each other.

Cross-Border Dynamics of IP Modularity: International Patenting in LEDs and Lithium-Ion Secondary Battery Technology

Decision-makers need currently and potentially valuable intellectual property to apply an international IP modularity value capture strategy.

emmtrix Technologies: Patent Negotiations in High-Tech Academic Spinoffs

emmtrix Technologies: Patent Negotiations in High-Tech Academic Spinoffs

Author: Riar, F. J., Guderian, C. C., Bican, P. M., 2020

Publication: Ivey Publishing

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Innovation Management in Crisis: Patent Analytics as a Response to the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Innovation Management in Crisis: Patent Analytics as a Response to the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Author: Carsten C. Guderian, Peter M. Bican, Frederik J. Riar, Sarbani Chattopadhyay, 2020

Publication: Special Issue Paper

Publisher: Wiley Online Library

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Identifying Emerging Technologies with Smart Patent Indicators: The Example of Smart Houses

Identifying Emerging Technologies with Smart Patent Indicators: The Example of Smart Houses

Author: Guderian, C. 2019

Publication: International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management

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Intellectual Property as a Management Discipline

Intellectual Property as a Management Discipline

Author: Ernst, H., 2017

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Managing Knowledge in Open Innovation Processes: An Intellectual Property Perspective

Managing Knowledge in Open Innovation Processes: An Intellectual Property Perspective

Author: Bican, P., Guderian, C., Ringbeck, A. 2017

Publication: Journal of Knowledge Management, 21(6), 1384-1405

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Integrating the R&D and Patent Functions: Implications for New Product Performance

Integrating the R&D and Patent Functions: Implications for New Product Performance

Author: Ernst, H., Fischer, M. 2014

Publication: Journal of Product Innovation Management, Vol. 31 (S1), pp. 118-132

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Die Patentabteilung als Motor des Technologiemanagements: Bestandsaufnahme und Ausblick

Die Patentabteilung als Motor des Technologiemanagements: Bestandsaufnahme und Ausblick

Author: Ernst, H., 2014

Publication: Schultz, C., Hölzle, K. (eds.), Motoren der Innovation Zukunftsperspektiven der Innovationsforschung. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. Hans Georg Gemünden, S. 39-55

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A Framework for the Strategic Management of Intellectual Property

A Framework for the Strategic Management of Intellectual Property

Author: Conley, J.G., Bican, P., Ernst, H., 2013

Publication: California Management Review – Special Issue on Intellectual Property Management, Vol. 55, Nr. 4, pp. 102-120

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Improving Retrieval Results with Discipline-Specific Query Expansion

Improving Retrieval Results with Discipline-Specific Query Expansion

Author: Lüke, T.; Schaer, P.; Mayr, P. 2012

Publication: Proceedings of the Second international conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Berlin, Springer, S. 408-413

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Valuing Patents Through Indicators

Author:  Omland, N. 2011

Publication: Munari, F. and Oriani, R. (eds.): The Economic Valuation of Patents – Methods and Applications, pp. 169-201, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham

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Patent Teaching Kit

Author: Omland, N. et al. 2011

Publication: Created for and published by the European Patent Office.

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Evaluating the Risk of Patent Infringement by Means of Semantic Patent Analysis: The Case of DNA-Chips

Evaluating the Risk of Patent Infringement by Means of Semantic Patent Analysis: The Case of DNA-Chips

Author:   Bergmann, I.; Butzke, D.; Walter, L.; Fürste, J-P.; Möhrle, M.G.; Erdmann, V. A. 2007

Publication: The R&D Management Conference 2007, Risk and uncertainty in R&D management, Bremen, 4-6 July 2007

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Patent Portfolio Analysis as a Useful Tool for Identifying R&D and Business Opportunities

Author: Fabry, B., Ernst, H., Langholz, J., Kösters, M. 2006

Publication: World Patent Information, Vol. 28, pp. 215-225

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Enhancing Market-Oriented R&D Planning

Enhancing Market-Oriented R&D Planning by Integrated Market and Patent Portfolios – An Empirical Application in the Chemical Industry

Author:   Ernst, H., Fabry, B., Soll J.H. 2004

Publication: Journal of Business Chemistry, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2004

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Vitalization of Industry through the Regional Promotion of Knowledge Intensive New Firms: The Case of German Biotechnology

Vitalization of Industry through the Regional Promotion of Knowledge Intensive New Firms: The Case of German Biotechnology

Author:    Ernst, H., Omland, N. 2004

Publication:  Journal of Innovation Management, No. 1 (Spring), pp. 61-75

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Enhancing Market-Oriented R&D Planning

An Integrated Portfolio Approach to Support Market-Oriented R&D Planning

Author: Ernst, H., Soll, J.H. 2003

Publication: International Journal of Technology Management, Vol. 26 (5/6), pp. 540-560

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Patent Information for Strategic Technology Management

Patent Information for Strategic Technology Management

Author: Ernst, H. 2003

Publication: World Patent Information, Vol. 25, Issue 3, pp. 233-242

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Patentmanagement junger Technologieunternehmen

Patentmanagement junger Technologieunternehmen

Author:    Ernst, H., Soll, J.H. 2003

Publication:  Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, Ergänzungsheft 2/2003, S. 95-113

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Success Factors of New Product Development: A Review of the Empirical Literature

Success Factors of New Product Development: A Review of the Empirical Literature

Author:    Ernst, H. 2002

Publication:  International Journal of Management Reviews, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 1-40

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Patent Applications and Subsequent Changes of Performance

Patent Applications and Subsequent Changes of Performance: Evidence from Time-Series Cross-Section Analyses on the Firm Level

Author:    Ernst, H. 2001

Publication: Research Policy Vol. 30 (1), pp. 143-157

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The Influence of Corporate Acquisitions on the Behaviour of Key Inventors

The Influence of Corporate Acquisitions on the Behaviour of Key Inventors

Author: Ernst, H., Vitt, J. 2000

Publication: R&D Management, Vol 30 (2), pp. 105-119

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Inventors Are Not Alike: The Distribution of Patenting Output Among Industrial R&D

Inventors Are Not Alike: The Distribution of Patenting Output Among Industrial R&D

Author: Ernst, H., Leptien, C., Vitt, J. 2000

Publication: Personnel, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 47 (2), pp. 184-199

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Gains and Pains from Licensing

Gains and Pains from Licensing—Patent-Portfolios as Strategic Weapons in the Cardiac Rhythm Management Industry

Author: Brockhoff, K., Ernst, H., Hundhausen, E., 1999

Publication: Technovation, Vol. 19 (10), pp. 605-614

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Assessment of R&D Collaborations by Patent Data in the International Automotive Industry

Assessment of R&D Collaborations by Patent Data in the International Automotive Industry

Author:    Ernst, H., Teichert, T. 1999

Publication:  Kocaoglu, D.F. und Anderson, T.R. (eds.), Technology and Innovation Management, PICMET’99 Proceedings, Portland, OR, pp. 78-86

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Industrial Research as a Source of Important Patents

Industrial Research as a Source of Important Patents

Author: Ernst, H.,  1998

Publication:  Kocaoglu, D.F. und Anderson, T.R. (eds.), Technology and Innovation Management, PICMET’99 Proceedings, Portland, OR, pp. 78-86

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The Use of Patent Data for Technological Forecasting

The Use of Patent Data for Technological Forecasting: The Diffusion of CNC-Technology in the Machine Tool Industry

Author: Ernst, H.,  1997

Publication: Small Business Economics, Vol. 9 (4), pp. 361-381

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Patentinformationen für die strategische Planung von Forschung und Entwicklung

Patentinformationen für die strategische Planung von Forschung und Entwicklung

Author:    Ernst, H. (1996)

Publication:  DUV-Verlag, Wiesbaden

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Patenting Strategies in the German Mechanical Engineering Industry and their Relationship to Company Performance

Patenting Strategies in the German Mechanical Engineering Industry and their Relationship to Company Performance

Author: Ernst, H. 1995

Publication: Technovation, Vol. 15 (4), pp. 225-236

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