We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are … are shown to be solved by verification through entry for sale. -- acquisitions ; entrepreneurship ; innovation ; start …-ups ; patent ; ownership ; quality …

British and German companies that seek venture capital (VC). We find that patent applications – as signals from ventures – are … positively related to VC-financing. Moreover, applications trigger institutionalized processes at the patent office, which can …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …

innovation. The dataset is complemented with indicators of patent quality (patent renewal, forward citations, and patent family … commercialized as well as whether this commercialization was profitable or not. Thus, this patent database measures technological …

the German patent office. The results show that there is an inverted u-shaped relationship between the chances of a firm …

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 …

of enhanced entrepreneurial innovation. To this end, a literature review was carried out in order to develop a research … framework with factors related to imitation predicting entrepreneurial innovation. Moreover, managerial skills and … entrepreneurial skills were incorporated as predictors of entrepreneurial innovation. In this respect, a structured questionnaire was …

innovation activity. …