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To be financed or not ... : the role of patents for venture capital financing
Häussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth - 2009
This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncer-tainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861082
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To be financed or not … : the role of patents for venture capital financing
Häussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth - 2009
This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncertainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003848824
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To Be Financed or Not… - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital-Financing
Häussler, Carolin - 2013
In the presence of asymmetric information, economic agents need to communicate their quality to investors and other parties. While much of the literature focuses exclusively on signaling, we develop a conceptual framework that extends this view with elements of the literature on certification....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095986
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Markets for technology in Europe : mapping demand and its drivers
Grimpe, Christoph; Sofka, Wolfgang; Schulz, Philipp; … - 2019
Functioning markets for technology are an important determinant for the type, scope and distribution of innovation activities in an economy. However, markets for technology are often underdeveloped or inefficient. Existing theory attributes such imperfections to the supply side or differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012109765
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Institutionalized incentives for ingenuity : patent value and the German Employees' Inventions Act
Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin - 2006
Germany is one of few countries in which the monetary compensation for inventors is not only determined by negotiations between employer and employee-inventor, but also by relatively precise legal provisions. In this paper, we describe the characteristics of the German Employees' Inventions Act...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441538
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Markets for Technology in Europe – Mapping Demand and its Drivers
Grimpe, Christoph; Sofka, Wolfgang; Schulz, Philipp; … - 2019
Functioning markets for technology are an important determinant for the type, scope and distribution of innovation activities in an economy. However, markets for technology are often underdeveloped or inefficient. Existing theory attributes such imperfections to the supply side or differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014103578
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Inventions under Siege? : the impact of technology competition on licensing
Grimpe, Christoph; Hussinger, Katrin - 2009
inlicensing activity. In this paper, we investigate the effect of expected blocking on firms' engagement in in- and out-licensing …. Based on a sample of more than 400 German manufacturing firms our results show that firms engage in in- and out-licensing if … technology competition increases which is in line with the argument that licensing can mitigate hold-up problems in technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003871201
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The German Mittelstand: antithesis to the Silicon Valley entrepreneurship model?
Pahnke, André; Welter, Friederike - 2019
in Germany praises the Silicon Valley model of entrepreneurship, contrasting the Mittelstand as low-growth, low-tech and … is the antithesis to the Silicon Valley entrepreneurship model. We show that Mittelstand is more than a small and medium … the Mittelstand is an excellent example of everyday entrepreneurship and a vibrant segment of economy which is also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977405
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Skill Composition and Regional Entrepreneurship : A Comparative Study between Germany and Portugal
Grimpe, Christoph; Mendonça, Joana - 2009
infrastructures for entrepreneurship which presumably moderate the relationship between the skill composition and regional … to entrepreneurship. As these should predominantly vary at the national level, we present a comparative study of this … other in terms of economic capacity and geography. Hence, the institutional infrastructures for entrepreneurship may vary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201171
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Incidence and growth of patent thickets : the impact of technological opportunities and complexity
Graevenitz, Georg von; Wagner, Stefan; Harhoff, Dietmar - 2011
We investigate incidence and evolution of patent thickets. Our empirical analysis is based on a theoretical model of patenting in complex and discrete technologies. The model captures how competition for patent portfolios and complementarity of patents affect patenting incentives. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009012623