Essays on Innovation, Patents, and Econometrics
This thesis investigates the impact of fragmentation in the ownership of complementary patents or patent thickets on firms' market value. This question is motivated by the increase in the patent ownership fragmentation following the pro-patent shifts in the US since 1982. The first chapter uses...
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| Language: | en |
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5320 |