citations to US and Japanese patents in fields of knowledge related to computation, information processing, and medicine. We …

We investigate how intangible capital in form of intellectual property, such as patents, might mitigate financing … constraints. While scholars have already argued that patents might have a signalling value reducing information asymmetries … between borrowers and lenders, we quantify the value of using patents as collateral with regard to capital access. Although …

Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector ….S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure …

citations to US and Japanese patents in fields of knowledge related to computation, information processing, and medicine. We …

Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector ….S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure …

from textual analysis, we document that women are under-cited relative to the quality of their patents. For the equivalent … are magnified for patents in emerging technology fields. Male lead inventors in particular tend to undercite patents with …-authored patents likely has economic implications for the allocation of talent in the economy …

whether this role varies between different types of regions. Building on regionally aggregated levels of individual Big Five … personality traits, we find that only extraversion has a positive effect on patenting in German regions. Its impact is … particularly important in lagging regions. We interpret this result as an indication of the compensatory role of collaboration for …