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To be financed or not … : the role of patents for venture capital financing

Häussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Mueller, 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...

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To be financed or not ... : the role of patents for venture capital financing

Häussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Mueller, 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

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

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...

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Subsidized start-ups out of unemployment : a comparison to regular business start-ups

Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - 2015

Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants escaping unemployment and improving their labor market prospects compared to other unemployed...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010473187

Zur Unterrepräsentanz von Frauen im Unternehmertum

Kay, Rosemarie - 2023

-representation of women in entrepreneurship. The propensity of women to become self-employed has long remained at a significantly lower …

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Trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity : do these traits impact entrepreneurial dynamics?

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2010

Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...

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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 …

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Zur Unterrepräsentanz von Frauen im Unternehmertum

Kay, Rosemarie - 2023

-representation of women in entrepreneurship. The propensity of women to become self-employed has long remained at a significantly lower …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014456409

Innovationsanreize in einem strukturellen Oligopolmodell

Harhoff, Dietmar - 1997

In diesem Beitrag wird ein Oligopolmodell der Innovationsaktivität entwickelt und mit Daten aus dem Mannheimer Innovationspanel geschätzt. Das Modell erlaubt es, bei der empirischen Umsetzung auf die Verwendung von Marktanteilsdaten und Nachfrageelastizitäten zu verzichten, die typischerweise...

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