Publications of the Research Unit Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-034 // 2022

    How Patent Rights Affect University Science

    How do intellectual property rights influence academic science? We investigate the consequences of the introduction of software patents in the U.S. on the publications of university researchers in the field of…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-033 // 2022

    Patent Collateral and Access to Debt

    We investigate how intangible capital in form of intellectual property, such as patents, might mitigate financing constraints. While scholars have already argued that patents might have a signalling value…