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Money for novelty: The role of venture capital investments for innovation in young technology-based firms
Heger, Diana - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
technology-based firms founded between 1996 and 2005. Innovation is proxied by patent counts and an index of innovativeness which …This paper examines the role of venture capital on a firm's innovation activities by using a data set of German …
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Biomedical Academic Entrepreneurship Through the SBIR Program
Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059052
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Determinants of Patent Litigation in Germany
Cremers, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of patent litigation in Germany, based on information … analysis show that relatively valuable patents are more likely to be involved in litigation cases than the average patent … than patents which have not been opposed. Patent owner?s ability to trade patents with potential infringers and to interact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098016
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Citation Frequency and the Value of Patented Innovation
Vopel, Katrin; Scherer, Frederic M.; Narin, Francis; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1997
which German patent renewal fees were paid to full-term expiration in 1995. A search of subsequent U.S. and German patents … allowed to expire before their full term. The higher an invention?s economic value estimate was, the more the relevant patent …
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What lures cross-border venture capital inflows?
Schertler, Andrea; Tykvová, Tereza - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
The change in the business model of venture capitalists from investing locally towards investing across borders started to intensify in the late 1990s. According to a dataset of European and North-American countries, we find that countries with higher expected growth and higher lagged stock...
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Venture capital and internationalization
Schertler, Andrea; Tykvová, Tereza - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
Cross-border investments represent a substantial share of venture capital activities. We use a new and comprehensive dataset on worldwide investments to analyze the internationalization of venture capital financing. Our results from the perspectives of (i) venture capitalists, (ii) portfolio...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533677
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The Birth of German Biotechnology Industry: Did Venture Capital run the Show?
Heneric, Oliver; Engel, Dirk; Champenois, Claire - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
The goal of this paper is to point out the role played by private equity investors (venture-capital companies and corporate investors) in the emergence of a new biotechnology industry in Germany in the second half of the 90?s. This analysis takes into account the different business models and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097518
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The Decision of Venture Capitalists on Timing and Extent of IPOs
Tykvová, Tereza - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003
We analyze the venture capitalist's decision on the timing of the IPO, the offer price and the fraction of shares he sells in the course of the IPO. A venture capitalist may decide to take a company public or to liquidate it after one or two financing periods. A longer venture capitalist's...
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Welche Regionen profitieren von Venture Capital-Aktivitäten?
Engel, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002
Mit der Venture Capital (VC)-Finanzierung als Teil eines regionalen Innovationssystems sind Erwartungen verbunden, die Kommerzialisierung neuer Forschungsergebnisse in marktfähige Produkte in einer Region zu fördern. In Erwartung positiver Effekte eines solchen Kapitalzuflusses in eine Region...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097648
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Zur Rolle von Beteiligungskapitalgebern in ihren Portfoliounternehmen: Eine ökonometrische Analyse
Engel, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002
Der deutsche Markt für Beteiligungskapital ist ein vergleichsweise junger Markt, so dass nur wenig Wissen bezüglich der Qualität der von den VCG geleisteten Managementunterstützung besteht. Ziel der Studie ist es, den Beitrag der VCG zum Wachstum und Überleben ihrer Portfoliounternehmen...
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