High Technology Entrepreneurs and the Patent System: Results of the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey

By Stuart J. H. Graham, Rob Merges, P. Samuelson, Ted Sichelman. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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What Is a Patent Worth? Evidence from the U.S. Patent “Lottery” (2019, neutral): “4.4 Variation across industries IT and biochemistry have, for a long time, been the main focus of VCs in the U.S. (Gompers and Lerner 2001, Graham et al. 2009).”
The Choice between Formal and Informal Intellectual Property: A Review (2014, methodology): “As discussed earlier, the most important reason cited by startups for not patenting is cost (Graham et al. 2009).”
How SMEs exploit their intellectual property assets: evidence from survey data (2011, neutral): “Graham et al. (2009), for instance, find that cost considerations loom large for high-technology start-ups in deciding to forego patenting.”
The diminishing signaling value of patents between early rounds of venture capital financing (2014, background): “Patents would therefore appear to meet the requirements for a signal because they are freely available (making them easy to observe), are costly to acquire (Graham et al., 2009) and are governed strictly.”
Cocreation of Value in a Platform Ecosystem: The Case of Enterprise Software (2012, methodology): “Both patents and copyrights have been shown as common methods of intellectual property protection in the software industry (Bessen and Hunt 2007; Graham et al. 2009).”
The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions (2011, neutral): “Studying the motivations for patenting of present- day entrepreneurs, Graham et al. (2009) fi nd that enhancing the company’s reputation and improving chances of securing investment or additional fi nancing are still important reasons for entrepreneurs to take out patents.”
Show Me the Right Stuff: Signals for High Tech Startups (2013, background): “Indeed, the Berkeley Patent Survey finds that one of the most important reasons for startups to patent is to secure funds (Graham and Sichelman, 2008; Graham et al., 2009).1 There is also empirical evidence that alliances (Stuart et al., 1999; We are indebted to Jerry Thursby for insightful…”
Knowledge-Based Capital, Innovation and Resource Allocation (2013, background): “Evidence from the United States suggests important differences across sectors, with patents more likely to be associated with an increase in innovation in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and specific chemical sectors (Arora et al., 2001; Graham et al., 2009).”
Patents as Signals for Startup Financing: Patents as Signals for Startup Financing (2013, background): “We report average partial effects for all models.(21) Note that in a number of cases the estimated coefficients as well as the associated t-statistics are very different between the IV and the non-IV estimators.”
Quality Signals? The Role of Patents, Alliances, and Team Experience in Venture Capital Financing (2015, critical): “These findings are rather unexpected in the light of conceptual studies on a patent’s signaling value (e.g., Graham et al., 2009; Long, 2002) and question received wisdom.”