This paper analyzes how different innovation-strategies of incumbent firms affect the quality of their entrepreneurial … spawns. Using a novel data set that combines employer-employee micro data from Sweden with firm level patent application data … files for the period 1997-2008, three types of incumbent firms are distinguished: firms that are engaged in innovation …

innovation activities captured by patent applications, firm characteristics, international trade and the regional milieu. …

venture capital, innovation and entrepreneurship has greatly extended and improved our understanding of one of the major … and organization of the venture capital industry. Later, his most important publications on entrepreneurship, innovation …

registries with patent applicants. This is the first cross-country project of its kind to develop and execute such an exercise … as the OECD patent name harmonization activity). The intention is to demonstrate how this cross-country approach can …

innovation activities, as evidenced by patent applications. Interestingly, when controlling for firm attributes we do not find …

internal finance resources, measured by cash-flow, affect the propensity to apply for a patent as well as the number of patent … economic expansion there is no significant association between internal finance and patent applications. Further, the … sensitivity of patent applications to cash-flow is limited to firms with low equity-ratio. Among high equity firms the pattern of …

number of patent applications, even after controlling for the standard variables of a patent study. The results are based on …