sufficiently better at judging an idea's value and if it is sufficiently more costly to patent low than high value ideas, VCs …-run performance, but also infl ates their acquisition prices, and lowers their acquirers' overall profits. Patent law usefulness …

innovation literature. Using an NPE-derived dataset with patent-specific revenues we find that the relationship of citations to … behind it. We attempt to explain this relationship with a simple model of innovation, allowing for both productive and … findings have important implications for our basic understanding of growth, innovation, and intellectual property policy. …

innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export ratio given the small size of the country and its long-time EU …

well-functioning innovation system connecting research output with the demand of entrepreneurs and high-tech start-ups in …, most of them however working abroad. The central problem is the lack of an innovation-oriented industry structure and of a …-added, the country has the opportunity to transform into an innovation-driven economy. …

Innovation Research (SBIR) program. We provide supply-side evidence on university research relationships and how the use of …

innovation-related initiatives, one of which was the National Cooperative Research Act (NCRA) of 1984. It has been argued that … innovative and characterized by entrepreneurial risk. In this paper we examine empirically covariates with the trend in the …

innovation as well as the project's feasibility. Our analysis of 900 nascent entrepreneurs finds that patents and prototypes …External finance is central for nascent entrepreneurs, people in the process of starting new ventures. We argue that … nascent entrepreneurs use patents and prototypes in order to signal their ability to appropriate the returns from their …

Financing constraints have been discussed as a major obstacle to innovation. Small and medium-sized enterprises and … provide external finance to innovative firms based on the firms’ patent portfolios. Patents have been used as collateral or as … assets assembled in patent funds seeking to commercialize the patent rights. Patent auctions are indicative of a nascent …

innovation activities captured by patent applications, firm characteristics, international trade and the regional milieu. …

innovation as well as the project's feasibility. Our analysis of 900 nascent entrepreneurs finds that patents and prototypes …External finance is central for nascent entrepreneurs, people in the process of starting new ventures. We argue that … nascent entrepreneurs use patents and prototypes in order to signal their ability to appropriate the returns from their …