venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncertainty and therefore rely on patents … 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 …

venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncertainty and therefore rely on patents … 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 …

venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncer-tainty and therefore rely on patents … 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 …

venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncer-tainty and therefore rely on patents … 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 …

venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncertainty and therefore rely on patents … 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 …

entry and we also detect an impact of the prizes on the quality of contemporaneous patents, especially when prize categories …

Ascertaining whether patents encourage invention necessitates understanding the incentives inventors respond to. The … of patentees, by observing the entire population of British patents granted up to the patent reforms of 1852. I find …