obtaining patents; studies of using patent information for different purposes are underrepresented in the innovation literature …This paper discusses the use of patent information by innovative SMEs. The standard literature tends to focus on …. Studying the case of SMEs is especially interesting, because they often do not have in-house specialists dealing with patent …

patents in cases filed in 2000 and 2002, we explore how the resolution of patent cases relates to the nature of the parties … parties are only enforcing their most valuable patents, and that the average case may be filtered out. Finally, we explore the …

The purpose of this study is to present a unique database on commercialized patents and to illustrate how it can be … used to analyze the commercialization process of patents. The dataset is based on a survey of Swedish patents owned by … commercialization not found anywhere else, including whether, when and how (acquisition, licensing, existing or new firm) patents were …

The purpose of this chapter is to describe and analyze how patents are commercialized and how the choice of … commercialization mode affects performance. The emphasis is on patents that are commercialized in new start-up firms. However …, throughout the chapter the new firm alternative will be compared with the other possible modes of commercialization, i.e. patents …

rights influence academic entrepreneurship. In 2002, the German Federal Government enacted a major reform called Knowledge … between patents on university-discovered inventions and university start-ups; however, it substantially decreased the volume … of patents with the largest decrease taking place in faculty-firm patenting relationships …

It is well known that innovation law and policy must strike a balance between incentivizing inventions on the one hand … actors in innovation markets respond to their economic environments just like anyone else (at least on a first approximation … economic choice, but with the risky option framed as an investment in an “innovation-related” project. We find strong evidence …

through public sector entrepreneurship activities. Especially entrepreneurial universities are perceived as a conduit of … knowledge spillovers, as they serve as central actors of innovation networks and stimulate network activities. Whereas the … linkages between network embeddedness and innovation activities have been largely explored, the impact on patent quality in …

patents upon the SMEs innovation. In this context, the paper encompasses an analysis of several relevant factors such as: the … primarily focused on assessing the relationship between innovation and patent propensity of SMEs. More precisely, the …The innovation and proprietary knowledge nowadays represent a basis for new competitive strategies of the companies. In …

This paper examines recent contributions on innovation protection practices in small and medium enterprises (SMEs …

. SMEs are also less likely than larger firms to use others' patents as a source of information for their own innovation … cost and capacity pressures. Among the emerging trends, of particular interest for high tech SMEs is the role of patents as …The authors consider the theory and evidence on the propensity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to patent …