The performance of new companies coming from the demand side of the semiconductor industry is examined and compared with the performance of entrants coming from the semiconductor industry itself and with other types of entrants. By using a dataset of more than 1000 start-ups founded between 1997...

It is well known that not all innovations are patented, but the exact volume of innovative activities undertaken outside the coverage of patent protection and, relatedly, the actual propensity to patent an innovation in different contexts remain, to a major degree, a matter of speculation. This...