Classical patent literature assumes that patents grant well-defined legal rights to exclude others from practicing an … invention. In this scenario, start-up companies benefit from the exclusive right to commercialize patent-protected inventions … and the certification effect of patents which signals the ventures’ “quality” to investors. If the decision about patent …

We use an exogenous change in German Federal law to examine how entrepreneurial support and the ownership of patent … of patent rights from university researchers to their universities. Based on a novel researcher-level panel database that … increase in start-up companies by university researchers. The shift in patent rights may have strengthened the relationship …

competition towards competition based on technical inventions, a worldwide surge in patenting took place, and the 'patent thicket …

In recent years, firms have increasingly contributed to and been confronted with a patent landscape characterized by … numerous but marginal inventions, overlapping claims and patent fences. As a result, firms risk their patent applications to be …

We use an exogenous change in German Federal law to examine how entrepreneurial support and the ownership of patent … of patent rights from university researchers to their universities. Based on a novel researcher-level panel database that … increase in start-up companies by university researchers. The shift in patent rights may have strengthened the relationship …

We use an exogenous change in German Federal law to examine how entrepreneurial support and the ownership of patent … of patent rights from university researchers to their universities. Based on a novel researcher-level panel database that … increase in start-up companies by university researchers. The shift in patent rights may have strengthened the relationship …

quality) than their European counterparts after patent rights for software inventions were introduced. We then introduce a …

quality) than their European counterparts after patent rights for software inventions were introduced. We then introduce a …