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 …

alternative explanation for the puzzle of why people are so risk averse for small gambles. Such behavior can arise because losing …

that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …

employment or entrepreneurship. Strong willingness to freely distribute research findings are related to a low appeal of private …

This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation … that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What … is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy in comparison to non-entrepreneurs? We study the relative …

impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to … perspectives that focus on low-cost immigrant labor or immigrant entrepreneurship. …

This paper investigates whether entrepreneurs with technical education are more innovative in high-tech industries than … economists. The main contribution to the literature is in using the type of education as main explanatory variable for innovation … conducted for entrepreneurs with university degree and practical education. The results suggest that education matters for …

effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …This paper proposes that risk aversion encourages individuals to invest in balancedskill profiles, making them more … likely to become entrepreneurs. By not havingtaken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated …