Dechenaux, Emmanuel; Goldfarb, Brent; Shane, Scott; … - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 5, pp. 893-906
The effects of appropriability on invention have been well studied, but there has been little analysis of the effect of appropriability on the commercialization of existing inventions. Exploiting a database of 805 attempts by private firms to commercialize inventions licensed from the...
