Article on patenting and open innovation in solar industry published
Researchers from SusTec, UC Berkeley, and Technical University Freiberg have analyzed how the patent stock of new entrants in the North American Solar industry influences their subsequent openness in innovation.
The results from econometric analyses suggest that patenting increases new entrants' number of open innovation relationships, on average. However, this effect is greatly influenced by the technology intensity of relationships. While patenting strongly enables technology-intensive relationships, it is less important for relationships that are weaker in technology intensity and even inhibits relationships that score very low on technology intensity.
The paper can be found Download here