In this paper, we investigate the issue of financial constraints to innovation in SMEs in Italy with respect to the future changes in the banking system, which will be driven by the adoption of the new version of the Basel Capital Accord, scheduled to be implemented after 2006. The study is...

In this paper, the practice of using patents as collateral for debt has been studied. To this aim, the USPTO Patent Assignment database has been used and all the patents that reported the “security interest agreement” type of conveyance, registered in the 2007-2010 years, have been...

This paper analyzes the impact of patent bibliographic indicators and patent characteristics on the economic value of patents put on sale in an auction, considering different typologies of sellers and buyers. A unique dataset covering all patent auctions held until the end of 2008 by Ocean Tomo...