destruction by increasing the entrepreneurial effort allocated to high-quality invention projects. Using detailed data on patents …

This paper analyzes the effect of an increase in patent scope on R&D and innovation. It presents a model where patent … duplication of R&D. The model predicts that an increase in patent scope can increase the probability of innovation if the … incumbent’s profit increase from innovation is large and the patented technology has a small advantage over the alternative …

patents; however, most patent databases contain no information on whether patents have been commercialized, i.e., whether … innovations have been introduced in the market. This paper applies a new method to identify innovations in patent databases by … relating traditional patent quality indicators (patent renewal, patent equivalents and forward citations) to patent …

database on Swedish patents owned by individuals and small firms, this paper analyzes how different forms of external financing … influence the outcome when patents are commercialized. The estimations show that projects with soft government financing in the …

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 …

Using a unique database on individual Swedish patents, a survival model estimates how different factors influence the …. For external financing of patent projects and small technology-based firms, Sweden has during long time relied on … government support rather than private venture capital firms. The empirical results show that the larger share of the patent …

In this paper, I analyze the commercialization of patents in the Swedish medicine & hygiene sector. A unique database … makes it possible to use a new method, where I follow the commercialization process of individual patents. A surprisingly … commercialization, 90% of the patents are commercialized in existing firms and only 10% in new start-ups. Few patents are sold or …

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 …