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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...
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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...
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Policymakers all over the world claim: no innovation without protection. For more than a century, critics have objected …. It is possible to model innovation as a prisoner's dilemma between potential innovators, and to interpret intellectual …
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innovation. Innovation changes the status quo pay-off, and thereby affects the distribution of the gains from collusion. The … resulting innovation incentive is strictly smaller than in the competitive case. …
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