commercialization of inventions. If the patent holder commercializes his invention, he has stronger incentives to retain the patent. The … purpose here is to empirically analyze the relationship between commercialization and the renewal of patents. At the same time … if there are any third factors (quality of the patent) that affect the commercialization and renewal decisions. Using a …

used to analyze the commercialization process of patents. The dataset is based on a survey of Swedish patents owned by … commercialization not found anywhere else, including whether, when and how (acquisition, licensing, existing or new firm) patents were … commercialized as well as whether this commercialization was profitable or not. Thus, this patent database measures technological …