This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract … British biotechnology companies we have identified all patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate … analysis, we find that in the presence of patent applications, VC financing occurs earlier. Our results also show that VCs pay …

likelihood of patent renewal. Since the owners know more about the patents than potential external financiers, there is a problem …

This paper investigates the role of regional financial development, in addition to FDI, for regional innovation in … regional innovation (patenting) performance. This positive effect is found to be higher for minor innovations such as external … would otherwise impede regional innovation performance. …

This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract … British biotechnology companies we have identified all patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate … analysis, we find that in the presence of patent applications, VC financing occurs earlier. Our results also show that VCs pay …

We provide the first cross-country evidence of the effect of investment by private equity firms on innovation, focusing … covering the period 1991-2004, we study how private equity finance affects patent applications and patent grants. We address … funds and insurance companies across countries and over time. We also control for the standard determinants of innovation …

look at the development that has taken place in other jurisdictions and adapt the patent law to local conditions when … developing tests or guidelines in a manner that is compatible with the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade …

mechanisms for medium inventions, and patent their most important innovations. This result reestablishes the traditional view …

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of patent litigation in Germany, based on information … analysis show that relatively valuable patents are more likely to be involved in litigation cases than the average patent … than patents which have not been opposed. Patent owner?s ability to trade patents with potential infringers and to interact …

The aim of this paper is to test whether patent-based indicators are still reliable measures of innovativeness in light … already under way respectively at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO). For most … this purpose, we use a unique data set which collects balance sheet items and patent information from EPO and USPTO. After …

main channels: innovation and absorptive capacity. The quantitative results, based on a panel of 16 OECD countries from …