assets. To maximize the value of intellectual property corporate assets, companies turn these assets into collateral for … secured financing. Despite the pervasive practice of using intellectual property assets as collateral in secured financing … demonstrates that the use of copyright as collateral has hidden costs, including depriving the author of the right to create new …

clear impediments in the use of intellectual property as collateral. Even if the systems could begin to unify the approach …

Using intellectual property rights (IPR) as collateral to secure debt financing can form a promising strategy, in … key determinants of using IPR as collateral. The taxonomy defines two pillars that govern the use of IPR collateral that … trade-off between the economic costs and benefits of collateralizing IPR. We propose that IPR collateral can have …

This study provides a first comprehensive picture of the use of intellectual property (IP) rights as loan collateral …, particularly for financially constrained SMEs. We explore exogenous variation in the pledgeability of alternative collateral to … confirm the importance of IP collateral for IP-pledging firms …