British biotechnology companies we have identified all patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate … attention to patent quality, financing those ventures faster which later turn out to have high-quality patents. Patent …This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract …

competition towards competition based on technical inventions, a worldwide surge in patenting took place, and the 'patent thicket … manufacturing in 2000, it turns out that patents are important to protect intellectual property in the market, whereas secrecy seems …

generated patents. I show that cultural diversity and openness of a place affect its economic performance positively in terms of … innovation also when referring to intra-country differences. …

intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …' successful patent applications. The last chapter describes sector-level input-output relationships in eleven European economies …