IS SILENCE GOLDEN? PATENTS VERSUS SECRECY AT THE FIRM LEVEL

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Appropriability mechanisms, innovation, and productivity: evidence from the UK (2014, unknown): “The stage of development of an innovation has a bearing on the choice between formal and informal mechanisms – firms may use secrecy when developing a new technology but then apply for a patent when the new product is about to be commercialised (Hussinger 2006).”
The importance (or not) of patents to UK firms (2013, methodology): “An exception is Hussinger (2006), who investigates the question of the impact of a firm’s choice between patenting and secrecy on its innovative performance (measured as sales due to new products) also using the Mannheim Innovation Panel to which she adds patent filings at the German Patent and Trad”
French firms’ strategies for protecting their intellectual property (2012, background): “The use of patenting versus trade secrecy is the most studied area in the theoretical and empirical literature (Hussinger, 2006; Anton and Yao, 2004; Arundel, 2001; Horstmann et al., 1985).”
The influence of strategic patenting on companies' patent portfolios (2009, background): “For analyses of the relationship between patenting and secrecy see for example Arundel (2001) and Hussinger (2006).”