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Patents, Thickets, and the Financing of Early-Stage Firms:
Evidence from the Software Industry
This report looks at the impacts of impact of patents, especially their influence on capital markets, and the authors find evidence that the extraordinary growth in patenting of software during the 1990s is associated with significant effects on the financing of software companies.
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http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13644