patents can affect technical change, industry dynamics, and ultimately welfare, is through their role in stimulating or … stifling entry by new ventures. Patents can block entry, or raise entrants' costs in variety of ways, while at the same time … their intangible assets. One important impact of patents may be their influence on capital markets, and here we find …

-derived patent and financial data, as well as a novel model that guides our data analysis. We find that NPEs acquire patents from … license patents, those that generate higher fees are closer to the licensee's business and more likely to be litigated. We … also find that downstream innovation drops in fields where patents have been acquired by NPEs. Finally, our numerical …

. Accordingly, this paper offers an empirical comparison of patents in relation to the award of prizes for technological innovation …. The data set comprises a sample of patents, as well as exhibits and prizes at annual industrial fairs in Massachusetts …

. Using comprehensive data on Norwegian workers, firms, and patents, we find a 50% decline in both entrepreneurship and … patenting rates by university researchers after the reform. Quality measures for university start-ups and patents also decline …

. We find that patents have important consequences for access to new drugs: in the absence of a patent, launch is unlikely … prices but higher sales as well. The price premium associated with patents is smaller in poorer countries. Price …

setting that implies a waiver of intellectual property rights if patents are not disclosed timely, firms aspire to disclose …