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Market for Patents in Europe
By using the PatVal-EU dataset , the authors find that the most important determinant of patent licensing is firm size. Patent breadth, value, protection, and other factors suggested by the literature also have an impact, but not as important, they conclude.
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http://www.lem.sssup.it/WPLem/files/2006-04.pdf