the primary patent covering an innovation and whether the innovating firm's licenses its innovation or raises external … finance at certain stages of the firm/product's development, and thereby enable the firm to delay licensing, obtaining patent … effects from the empirical analysis, the theory suggests that patent filing may act as a signal to financial investors that …

. Using a binary size measure, we find strong support for the traditional view that firms patent their most important …

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

innovative performance also depends on the size of a firm's patent portfolio, which suggests an important strategic role for …

landscapes have a higher probability of in-licensing. For firms with small patent portfolios we also find a positive association … appear to depend on the size of a firm’s patent portfolio. These results suggest that the effects of fragmentation of …

In this paper, we examine new Internet ecosystem strategies through comprehensive OECD PATSTAT patent data analyses … focusing on mobile operating system software firms. We also describe current patent disputes between mobile hardware firms and …