likelihood of patent renewal. Since the owners know more about the patents than potential external financiers, there is a problem …I apply a survival model to a detailed dataset of Swedish patents to estimate how different factors affect the … venture capital. The empirical results show that patents which have received soft government financing in the R&D-phase have a …

detailed database of Swedish patents, I utilize a survival model to estimate how commercialization influences the patent … of the patent. With regard to commercialization modes, there is some evidence licensed patents and patents commercialized …One of the major reasons why inventors are awarded patents by governments is they encourage R&D investments and …