Lack of economic freedom and innovation: Patent activities in the “Third Reich” and in the GDR

缺乏经济自由和创新：“第三帝国”和东德的专利活动

• 批准号: 456726585
• 负责人: Dr. Alexander Donges
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Abteilung Volkswirtschaftslehre
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/456726585?language=en
• 关键词: Lack; economic; freedom; innovation; Patent

The aim of this project is to find out whether the changes in patent law and economic policy in the “Third Reich” and in the GDR influenced the innovation activities of companies and inventors and led to lasting changes in the economic geography and the industrial or technological focus of innovations in Germany. In order to realize this objective, the first step is to identify the special features of patent law and administrative practice in the two regimes. In a second step, patent data sets will be created and analyzed for the periods of the “Third Reich” and the GDR respectively. These data sets will contain information on the patent holders (in particular the place of residence or company location) as well as the technology class of the respective patents. In a third step, an empirical analysis spanning the various political systems of 20th-century Germany will be carried out in order to identify and explain continuities and discontinuities in the spatial and technological distribution of patents. We especially focus on the East-West shift of innovative companies in the course of the German division, which we understand as a “natural experiment” to test whether innovative ability is more organisation- or location-bound.

本课题的目的是为了查明“赖希帝国”和德意志民主共和国专利法和经济政策的变化是否影响了企业和发明家的创新活动，并导致德国的经济地理和创新的产业或技术重点发生了持久的变化。为了实现这一目标，第一步是确定两种制度中专利法和行政惯例的特点。在第二步中，将分别为“赖希帝国”和东德时期创建和分析专利数据集。这些数据集将包含专利持有人的信息（特别是居住地或公司所在地）以及相应专利的技术类别。第三步，对20世纪德国的各种政治制度进行实证分析，以确定和解释专利的空间和技术分布的连续性和不连续性。我们特别关注德国分部中创新企业的东西向转移，我们将其理解为一个“自然实验”，以测试创新能力是否更受组织或地点的限制。