Zhang, Jian Xiong - Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2009
effects on patent applications in the pre-and post-IPO periods for Japanese firms. It can be stated that the shareholding by … VC is positively correlated with their patent applications in the pre-IPO period; however, this effect becomes feeble in … the post-IPO period. On the basis of the analysis, it was found that VC promoted the patent application of Japanese firms …