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Firm formation and regional spillovers: evidence from Germany

Harhoff, Dietmar - 1995

This paper studies the effect of regional spillovers on the rate of firm formation in two major West German industries for the time period from 1989 to 1993. I exploit regional variations in firm formation at the county level to identify the effects of historically given industry structure and...

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To Be Financed or Not … - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing

Haeussler, 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/10010427765

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

Häussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth - 2009

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

Social ties for labor market access : lessons from the migration of East German inventors

Dorner, Matthias; Harhoff, Dietmar; Hinz, Tina; Hoisl, Karin - 2016

We study the impact of social ties on the migration of inventors from East to West Germany, using the fall of the Iron Curtain and German reunification as a natural experiment. We identify East German inventors via their patenting track records prior to 1990 and their social security records in...

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Firm formation and regional spillovers : evidence from Germany

Harhoff, Dietmar - 1995

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The role of patents and licenses in securing external finance for innovation

Harhoff, Dietmar - Economics Department, European Investment Bank (EIB) - 2009

Financing constraints have been discussed as a major obstacle to innovation. Small and medium-sized enterprises and … sense and as instruments for financing innovation. It also discusses implications of these developments for public policy …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493109

Bargaining failure and freedom to operate : re-evaluating the effect of patents on cumulative innovation

Gaessler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar; Sorg, Stefan - 2019

We investigate the causal effect of patent rights on cumulative innovation, using large-scale data that approximate the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139072

Bargaining Failure and Freedom to Operate : Re-Evaluating the Effect of Patents on Cumulative Innovation

Gaessler, Fabian - 2019

We investigate the causal effect of patent rights on cumulative innovation, using large-scale data that approximate the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863982

Patents, freedom to operate, and follow-on innovation : evidence from post-grant opposition

Gäßler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar; Sorg, Stefan; … - 2024

We study the blocking effect of patents on follow-on innovation by others. We posit that follow-on innovation requires … freedom to operate (FTO), which firms typically obtain through a license from the patentee holding the original innovation …. Where licensing fails, follow-on innovation is blocked unless firms gain FTO through patent invalidation. Using large …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014503038

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