Using a unique database on individual Swedish patents, a survival model estimates how different factors influence the …-owners' costs during the R&D-phase that are covered by government financial support, the longer time it takes until the patents are … commercialized. It seems like the government financing creates a pool of patents with bad perspectives of commercialization. The …

In this paper, I analyze the commercialization of patents in the Swedish medicine & hygiene sector. A unique database … makes it possible to use a new method, where I follow the commercialization process of individual patents. A surprisingly … commercialization, 90% of the patents are commercialized in existing firms and only 10% in new start-ups. Few patents are sold or …

research project has been affected (to some degree) by the presence of third-party patents. We test for the relative effects of …

research projects has been affected (to some degree) by the presence of third‐party patents. Our evidence suggests that the …

Using a unique database on individual Swedish patents, a survival model estimates how different factors influence the …-owners’ costs during the R&D-phase that are covered by government financial support, the longer time it takes until the patents are … commercialized. It seems like the government financing creates a pool of patents with bad perspectives of commercialization. The …

In this paper, I analyze the commercialization of patents in the Swedish medicine & hygiene sector. A unique database … makes it possible to use a new method, where I follow the commercialization process of individual patents. A surprisingly … commercialization, 90% of the patents are commercialized in existing firms and only 10% in new start-ups. Few patents are sold or …

patents; however, most patent databases contain no information on whether patents have been commercialized, i.e., whether … commercialization variables. For this purpose, I use a unique database on Swedish patents that includes information on whether patents …