Häussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth - 2009
British biotechnology companies we have identified all patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate …This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract … analysis, we find that in the presence of patent applications, VC financing occurs earlier. Our results also show that VCs pay …