Leveraging Patents Financially
A Company Perspective

Authors: Dominic de Vries



Intangible assets such as patents have become important competitive factors and key elements in the value structure of technology-intensive companies. While patents represent the technological capital to a large extent, they are not adequately represented in the field of corporate financing. Based on expert interviews and a large-scale survey, Dominic de Vries provides one of the first in-depth empirical studies into how patents contribute to companies’ access to external financial sources. He identifies and analyses the actual extent and influence factors of financial patent utilization across company size clusters and patent-intensive industry sectors in Germany.

Table of contents

Front Matter
Pages I-XVI

INTRODUCTION
Pages 1-15

THE ECONOMICS OF PATENTS
Pages 16-62

PATENTS AS FINANCIAL ASSETS
Pages 63-83

DESIGN OF THE EMPIRICAL STUDY
Pages 84-91

DEVELOPMENT OF THE SURVEY
Pages 92-106

DESCRIPTIVE RESULTS OF THE EMPIRICAL STUDY
Pages 107-132

ANALYTICAL EXAMINATION OF THE SURVEY RESULTS
Pages 133-156

DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS
Pages 157-170

CONCLUSION
Pages 171-172

Back Matter
Pages 173-212