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Economic Effect of Patents and the Patent System: Insights from Linked Patent-Product Data

George Abi Younes

This thesis investigates the economic effect of patents and the patent system through the lens of patent commercialisation. The thesis is composed of four chapters, where each chapter is an independent scientific paper. In the first chapter, we present a ...

EPFL2023

Ex-ante measure of patent quality reveals intrinsic fitness for citation-network growth

Kyle William Higham

We have constructed a fitness parameter, characterizing the intrinsic attractiveness for patents to be cited, from attributes of the associated inventions known at the time a patent is granted. This exogenously obtained fitness is shown to determine the te ...

2019

Commercialization Strategy and IPO Underpricing

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

This paper studies the interplay between two defining features of technology-based firms: licensing as a commercialization strategy and the reliance on equity financing. Within the context of an IPO, we argue that the technology commercialization strategy ...

Elsevier2017

Why do patents facilitate trade in technology? Testing the disclosure and appropriation effects

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

Evidence suggests that patents facilitate technology transactions but the reasons for the effect are unclear. Patents may assist trade in technology by either: (i) protecting buyers against the expropriation of the idea (the 'appropriation effect'); or (ii ...

Elsevier2016

Optimization of the treatment of hydrocephalus by the non-invasive measurement of the intra-cranial pressure

Alec Ginggen

This thesis work aims to optimize the treatment of hydrocephalus. It consists of two distinct objectives: the optimization of the diagnosis of patients implanted with a shunt system for the derivation of cerebro-spinal fluid (CSF) and the optimization of t ...

EPFL2007