1,721,035 research outputs found
Why, When and How to Value Patents? An Introduction
No full textThis
chapter is intended as an introduction to the key issues related to the valuation
of patents, that will be further discussed in the following chapters.
It therefore provides a general overview of the main themes that will be
discussed and developed in this book
The patent paradox in crowdfunding: an empirical analysis of Kickstarter data
No full textBuilding on signaling theory, this paper analyzes whether projects signaling patented technologies have a higher probability of funding success on a reward-based crowdfunding platform as compared with a control group of similar projects. Our analysis of a set of Kickstarter projects suggests the existence of an apparent paradox concerning the role of patents in this funding context. Despite solid evidence in entrepreneurial finance literature on the positive role of patents for accessing financing from professional investors such as venture capitals and business angels, our results from the reward-based crowdfunding context point out a negative signaling role of patents. We provide explanations to reconcile such evidence with previous relevant literature and highlight promising avenues for future research in this area
Assessing the impact of public venture capital programmes in the United Kingdom: Do regional characteristics matter?
No full textThis article analyses whether and how the impact of publicly backed venture capital (VC) funds varies across regions, depending on their level of innovation intensity and in comparison with private VC funds. Building on agency and human capital theories, the authors distinguish public VC funds into regional and governmental types, to assess potential differences in the performance of their portfolio companies. The analyses rely on a sample of 628 VC-backed companies in the United Kingdom during 1998–2007, and they con!rm that regional characteristics matter for rigorous assessments of the effectiveness of public VC programmes
The Economic Valuation of Patents: Methods and Applications
No full textthe aim of this book is to provide an original and comprehensive answer to the need for patent valuation of different actors, bridging the gap which exists between the academic and the practitioner-oriented literature on this subject, through the development of a multi-disciplinary framework of analysis on patent valuation. Starting from the description of the relevance of patent valuation from the strategic, economic and legal perspectives, the book has at least four unique characteristics which provide rigorous and clear answers to the needs of students, researchers and professionals interested in patent valuation issues
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Assessing the Influence ERC-funded Research Patented Inventions.
No full textThe objective of this study is to identify and analyse the patents that can be linked
to ERC-funded projects (through citations to the publications generated by such projects) and subsequently
classify them in large technology areas. Following consolidated approaches in the economics of innovation
literature, we worked on two different indicators of knowledge development: scientific publications and
patents. The simple intuition is to measure if, how and to what extent the new discoveries presented by ERC
grantees in scientific publications inspired new technologies described in new patents. We used the
publications cited in the non-patent literature (NPL) section of patents applications to trace this influence. A
complementary set of analyses were also performed for patents reported at the ERC Executive Agency by
the Principal Investigators (PIs) as a direct outcome of the ERC project (that we label “self-reported” patents)
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
- …
