' high value to acquirers prior to exiting. This increases the VC-backed companies' patenting intensity and long … clauses would reduce such excessive, signaling-driven investment and patenting intensity. …

30 OECD countries. It finds that patenting is highly concentrated: from 2010 to 2014, 10% of cities accounted for 64% of …) representing 21.8% of applications. The share of the top cities in total patenting increased modestly from 1995 to 2014. Digital … patenting activities in cities and that it benefits top cities, in particular, thereby strengthening the concentration of …

model is used to study patenting decisions by a company that has made an innovation. A company can monopolize its innovation … by either patenting it or keeping it secret. Patenting is the only viable option if a competitor independently comes up … others who would like to develop substitute products. Patenting is thus not advantageous unless the competitor is likely to …

of owner-managed SMEs and innovative capacity. This finding is highly robust when controlling for spatial correlations. …

of owner-managed SMEs and innovative capacity. This finding is highly robust when controlling for various sorts of …