The effect of patent litigation and patent assertion entities on entrepreneurial activity

This paper empirically investigates the statistical relationship between levels of patent litigation and venture capital investment in the U.S. We find that VC investment, a major funding source for entrepreneurial activity, initially increases with the number of litigated patents. However, there is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kiebzak, Stephen, Rafert, Greg, Tucker, Catherine Elizabeth
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier BV 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120600
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1847-4832