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Patent collateral and access to debt
Bracht, Felix; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2022 - This version: August 3, 2022
We investigate how intangible capital in form of intellectual property, such as patents, might mitigate financing … constraints. While scholars have already argued that patents might have a signalling value reducing information asymmetries … between borrowers and lenders, we quantify the value of using patents as collateral with regard to capital access. Although …
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The anatomy of Chinese innovation : insights on patent quality and ownership
Boeing, Philipp; Brandt, Loren; Dai, Ruochen; Lim, Kevin; … - 2024
We study the evolution of patenting in China from 1985-2019. We use a Large Language Model to measure patent importance based on patent abstracts and classify patent ownership using a comprehensive business registry. We highlight four insights. First, average patent importance declined from...
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Antitrust and (foreign) innovation : evidence from the Xerox case
Mamrak, Robin - 2023
ordered to license all its copier-technology patents in the US and abroad. I show that this promoted innovation by other firms … in the copier industry, measured by a disproportionate increase in patenting in technologies where Xerox patents became …
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Measuring China's patent quality : development and validation of ISR indices
Boeing, Philipp; Müller, Elisabeth - 2019
Because China has become one of the largest applicants of PCT patents, it is of interest to compare the quality of …
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Using big data for generating firm-level innovation indicators : a literature review
Rammer, Christian; Es-Sadki, Nordine - 2022
most frequently used indicators - R&D expenditure and patents - provide an incomplete picture as they represent inputs and …
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Financial constraints for R&D and innovation : new evidence from a survey experiment
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Giebel, Marek - 2021
We utilize a new survey experiment to evaluate the existence and degree of financial constraints for R&D in the economy. The experiment does not only allow to deduct the presence of financial constraints, but also to evaluate their economic significance. Using data on German companies, we find...
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Patience and comparative development
Sunde, Uwe; Dohmen, Thomas; Enke, Benjamin; Falk, Armin; … - 2021
capital, human capital and productivity. These correlations hold across countries, subnational regions, and individuals …
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Subsidies and innovation in the recent financial crisis
Giebel, Marek; Kraft, Kornelius - 2021
We analyze the impact of subsidies on R&D expenditures in the financial crisis and beyond. The financial crisis has led to considerable turmoil in financing and, as a result, to restrictions of firms' access to external financing. Utilizing this fact, we identify and analyze financing...
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Career paths in online labor markets : same, same but different?
Seifried, Mareike; Jurowetzki, Roman; Kretschmer, Tobias - 2020
The emergence of online labor markets calls the validity of traditional career models into question. Given the volatility and digital nature of this environment, short-term employment relationships and heterogeneity of workers, employers and tasks in these markets, it is unclear how careers...
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Intangible capital indicators based on web scraping of social media
Breithaupt, Patrick; Kesler, Reinhold; Niebel, Thomas; … - ZEW - 2020
Knowledge-based capital is a key factor for productivity growth. Over the past 15 years, it has been increasingly recognised that knowledge-based capital comprises much more than technological knowledge and that these other components are essential for understanding productivity developments and...
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