Investigating the determinants of patent acquisition in biotechnology: an empirical analysis

摘要: Acquiring patents is an increasingly relevant opportunity for innovating companies, especially after the rise and development of so-called markets technologies (MFTs). However, only scant attention has been devoted to investigate patents' characteristics influencing their acquisition by organisations. Accordingly, this paper aims at filling gap analysing how four main – as patent scope, scientific knowledge cited patent, forward citations, number claims impact likelihood acquisition. We based our statistical analysis on a sample 9716 US Patent Trademark Office assigned 165 biotechnological firms. Results support conjectures offer interesting managerial implications organisations operating within MFTs indicating which make patented technological solutions more likely be acquired other firms, narrow inclusion knowledge, citations ab...