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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...

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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

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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Entrepreneurship and cultural creativity

Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010

We investigate the relationship between cultural creativity and entrepreneurship in two respects: first, cultural and … individuals of the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP). We find, indeed, some significant links between entrepreneurship and … cultural creativity that deserve further investigation. -- Entrepreneurship ; new business formation ; cultural creativity …

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Personality traits, self-employment, and professions

Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010

We investigate the effect of broad personality traits - the Big Five - on an individual's decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions, we...

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Innovationsanreize in einem strukturellen Oligopolmodell

Harhoff, Dietmar - 1997 - Revidiert: Februar 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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Citation frequency and the value of patented innovation

Harhoff, Dietmar; Narin, Francis; Scherer, Frederic M.; … - 1997

Through a survey, economic value estimates were obtained on 962 inventions made in the United States and Germany and on which German patent renewal fees were paid to full-term expiration in 1995. A search of subsequent U.S. and German patents yielded a count of citations to those patents....

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Exploring the tail of patented invention value distributions

Harhoff, Dietmar; Scherer, Frederic M.; Vopel, Katrin - 1997

We explore the tail of patented invention value distributions by using value estimates obtained directly from patent holders. The paper focuses on those full-term German patents of the application year 1977 which were held by West German and U.S. residents. The most valuable patents in our data...

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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...

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Personality traits, self-employment, and professions

Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010

an important effect of an individual's profession on his or her decision to run an own business. -- Entrepreneurship …

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