Agiakloglou, Christos; Drivas, Kyriakos; Karamanis, Dimitris - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper examines the commercialization propensities of individual inventors' patents. Exploiting a peculiarity of the US patent system, concerning patent renewal fees in order to obtain small or large entity status, we are able to distinguish patents that become part of a large corporation's...