firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent … of patents on the dissemination of R&D findings is, however, insignificant. Therefore, we conclude that patent … functioning of the contemporary patent system. We find that patenting firms are being less confronted with imitation. The effect …

plant size. We further find lagged negative effects on the (citation-weighted) number of filed patents. …

-ups with experienced inventors holding a patent at the time of receiving the first round of investment produce the largest …

patent files. Other sources represent unintended knowledge spillovers, such as reverse engineering of technologies or hiring … spillovers, using knowledge from patents shows the strongest link to innovation output, particularly in case of product …