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SUMMARY:MTEI Seminar by Dr. Gaétan de Rassenfosse\, University of Melbour
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Gaétan de Rassenfosse\, University of Melbourne\n"Why do 
 patents facilitate trade in technology? Testing the appropriation and disc
 losure effects"Abstract:\nPatents have been shown to facilitate technology
  transactions. However\, the reasons for the effect are unclear. Patents m
 ay assist trade in technology either by protecting buyers against the expr
 opriation of the idea by third parties (appropriation effect) or by enabli
 ng sellers to more frankly disclose the idea during the negotiation phase 
 (disclosure effect). We test for the presence of both these effects using 
 quasi-experimental matching analysis on a novel dataset of 860 technology 
 transaction negotiations. We find evidence for the appropriation but not t
 he disclosure effect: technology transaction negotiations involving a gran
 ted patent instead of a pending patent (our test for the appropriation eff
 ect) are approximately 20 per cent more likely to be successfully complete
 d. In addition\, we find that the effect is greater in fields where patent
  protection is ‘known’ to be more effective.
LOCATION:EPFL\, ODY 4.03\, VIP room http://plan.epfl.ch/?zoom=19&recenter_
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 s\,information\,parkings_publics\,arrets_metro&floor=4&q=ODY_4.03
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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