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 …

This paper aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of … Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative … do so, we construct a firm-level panel data set for the years 1992-2009 combining patent data from the European Patent …

The creation of value through innovation is among the defining traits of new technology-driven ventures. In this paper … 1996 to 2014, as measured through patent applications. The paper is structured around two main parts. The first part … presents a series of descriptive statistics on EIF's VC investee patent portfolio and discusses some of the strategic aspects …