Purpose This paper analyzes the importance given by venture capital (VC) firms to the
different characteristics of the patent portfolio of a young innovative company (YIC). In an …

This article provides new evidence on the patent trading flows of small and large firms. We
document aggregate patterns of patent sales and acquisitions of small and large firms. We …

Over the past two decades, the market for patent transfers (PT) has experienced substantial
growth in China, driven by the expansion of main relationship types, including inter-firm …

Online platforms have emerged to facilitate patent transfer between academia and industry,
but a recommendation method that matches patents with company needs is missing in the …

While the effects of proximity on the technological catch-up of emerging economy firms are
well documented, little is known about how the sub-dimensions of cross-national distance …

The healthcare industry at large is used as a case study to suggest a methodological
technique for evaluating patent citation networks to analyze cross-country …

In this paper, we investigate the phenomenon of patent collateralization by empirically
focusing on the factors that affect the outcome of the collateralization process. In particular …

We investigate how bank-affiliated VCs (BVCs) change their investment strategy in fintech
startups relative to independent VCs (IVCs) after the global financial crisis (GFC). To this …

Spin-outs (new ventures founded by ex-employees) have received attention partly due to the
potential negative implications they present to the incumbents from which they originate (ie …

This study proposes a methodological approach to investigate cross-country
creativity/knowledge flows by analyzing patent citation networks, taking the aircraft, aviation …