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To Be Financed or Not … - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing
Haeussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth - 2009
This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncer-tainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427765
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To be financed or not ... : the role of patents for venture capital financing
Häussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth - 2009
This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncer-tainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861082
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To Be Financed or Not… - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital-Financing
Häussler, Carolin - 2013
In the presence of asymmetric information, economic agents need to communicate their quality to investors and other parties. While much of the literature focuses exclusively on signaling, we develop a conceptual framework that extends this view with elements of the literature on certification....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095986
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Determinants of Patent Litigation in Germany
Cremers, Katrin - 2004
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of patent litigation in Germany, based on information from suits filed during the period from 1993 to 1995 at two of the three most important district courts. A control group was formed by selecting a random sample from the population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297398
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Culture Clash on the Internet
Handel, Jonathan - 2015
The Internet has devalued content to the point where it is often offered at no charge — newspapers, for instance — or widely misappropriated, as with music and movies. Either way, many people expect much of their content to be free. Why is this, how did it happen, and, focusing on music and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206097
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Persistence of Innovation: Stylised Facts and Panel Data Evidence
Peters, Bettina - 2005
This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994?2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at … innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297493
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Stellenwert und Bedeutung von Innovationsnetzwerken für Unternehmensgründungen
Becker, Wolfgang; Dietz, Jürgen - 2003
The main focus of this paper is on the examination of the role and importance of innovation networks in the decision to … innovation intensity, the implications resulting from the involvement of ?start-ups? in a network of innovation are more closely … analyzed. The examinations show, on the one hand, that contact to innovation networks has a positive effect on the decision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262996
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Evaluation of the Role of Universities in the Innovation Process
Becker, Wolfgang - 2003
The aim of the paper is to evaluate the role of universities in the innovation process. Against the background of … theoretical considerations about the interrelation of innovation and the adaptation of external resources, the effects of … university-based (knowledge) resources - together with other exogenous variables - on the innovation input and output of firms in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263000
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Human capital diversity and product innovation: A micro-level analysis
Söllner, René - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between human capital diversity measured in terms of occupational diversity and a firm's likelihood to innovate. The empirical analysis is based on a linked employer-employee panel dataset of German firms over the period 1998 to 2007. Despite notable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267129
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Human capital diversity and product innovation : a micro-level analysis
Söllner, René - 2010
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962534