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To be financed or not ... : the role of patents for venture capital financing
Häussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth - 2009
This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncer-tainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861082
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To be financed or not … : the role of patents for venture capital financing
Häussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth - 2009
This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncertainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003848824
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To Be Financed or Not… - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital-Financing
Häussler, Carolin - 2013
In the presence of asymmetric information, economic agents need to communicate their quality to investors and other parties. While much of the literature focuses exclusively on signaling, we develop a conceptual framework that extends this view with elements of the literature on certification....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095986
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Entrepreneurs from low-skilled immigrant groups in knowledge-intensive industries : company characteristics, survival and innovative performance
Müller, Elisabeth - 2011
limited access to capital. -- Immigrants ; innovation ; entrepreneurship ; knowledge-intensive industries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008990888
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Measuring patent quality and national technological capacity in cross-country comparison
Boeing, Philipp; Müller, Elisabeth - 2016
China recently surpassed the USA as the greatest global source of patent applications. However, without internationally comparable measures of patent quality it remains questionable whether China's patent expansion constitutes the rise of a new technological superpower. Our novel quality index...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497061
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Measuring Patent Quality and National Technological Capacity in Cross-Country Comparison
Boeing, Philipp - 2016
China recently surpassed the USA as the greatest global source of patent applications. However, without internationally comparable measures of patent quality it remains questionable whether China's patent expansion constitutes the rise of a new technological superpower. Our novel quality index...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987942
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Institutionalized incentives for ingenuity : patent value and the German Employees' Inventions Act
Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin - 2006
Germany is one of few countries in which the monetary compensation for inventors is not only determined by negotiations between employer and employee-inventor, but also by relatively precise legal provisions. In this paper, we describe the characteristics of the German Employees' Inventions Act...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441538
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Patent thickets, licensing and innovative performance
Cockburn, Iain (contributor); MacGarvie, Megan (contributor) - 2009
firms, taking into consideration the role played by in-licensing of IP. We find that firms facing more fragmented IP … landscapes have a higher probability of in-licensing. For firms with small patent portfolios we also find a positive association … between fragmentation and licensing costs as a share of sales. We observe a negative relationship between IP fragmentation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922582
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Innovationsanreize in einem strukturellen Oligopolmodell
Harhoff, Dietmar - 1997 - Revidiert: Februar 1997
In diesem Beitrag wird ein Oligopolmodell der Innovationsaktivität entwickelt und mit Daten aus dem Mannheimer Innovationspanel geschätzt. Das Modell erlaubt es, bei der empirischen Umsetzung auf die Verwendung von Marktanteilsdaten und Nachfrageelastizitäten zu verzichten, die typischerweise...
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Citation frequency and the value of patented innovation
Harhoff, Dietmar; Narin, Francis; Scherer, Frederic M.; … - 1997
Through a survey, economic value estimates were obtained on 962 inventions made in the United States and Germany and on which German patent renewal fees were paid to full-term expiration in 1995. A search of subsequent U.S. and German patents yielded a count of citations to those patents....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440946