This paper discusses the extent and the determinants of the internationalization of European inventive activity … database. The observed level of internationalization of inventive activities, while being rather low, has steadily increased …

hypotheses that whether academic knowledge has a positive impact on innovative sales and the propensity to apply for patents … average service firm’s innovation sales or propensity to apply for patents. …

publishing (which in theory prevents others from acquiring patents). The risk of being sued for infringement of intellectual …

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 …

innovation to capture R&D productivity (patents scaled by R&D) influences studies on innovative efficiency. Simulation analysis …