patent application. The analysis is based on patent data from the Norwegian Industrial Property Office merged with data from … for confounding factors. The first patent application by a young firm is associated with significant growth in employment … three years ahead of the first patent application. However, we find no evidence of additional firm growth after patent …

Encouraging inventors to disclose new inventions is an important economic justification for the patent system, yet the … technical information contained in patent applications is often inadequate and unclear. This paper proposes a novel approach to … measure disclosure in patent applications using algorithms from computation allinguistics. Borrowing methods from the …

experiment, reduces evasion, as predicted by our theory. Loss aversion, risk aversion, and their interaction, are critical …

that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …

entrepreneurship. Here, we investigate analytically and quantitatively the trade-off between transaction costs saved and creative … entrepreneurs that are caused to continue a business, always lose relative to their status in an economy without continuation …

experiment, reduces evasion, as predicted by our theory. Loss aversion, risk aversion, and their interaction, are critical …

effect. We show that loss aversion, moral costs, mental accounting, and risk preferences play a key role in explaining key … that risk aversion strengthens the cautionary effect of loss aversion and risk loving behavior attenuates, or reverses, it …