How do potentially optimistic entrepreneurs attract prospective investors? We investigate an entrepreneur's decision to … pursue either disclosure - where investors inspect the invention - or a contingent payment scheme (CPS) offer (e.g., salary … deferral, royalty-based license) - where an invention's value is inferred from the entrepreneur's willingness to make her pay …

propensities of academic entrepreneurs to be business owners. A theoretical model sets up the empirical analysis based on survey … data from a large German public research institute. Traditionally, scientists and entrepreneurs have been seen to occupy …

influence citations. Patent attorneys cite early patents, which help establish the patentability of an invention; this practice …. Attorneys also add self-citations; our analysis indicates that that self-citations can be an indicator of follow-on invention …. By comparison, examiner-added citations are typically unrelated to improvements in performance or follow-on invention …