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- Title
Patent value and the Tobin’s <italic>q</italic> ratio in media services.
- Authors
Harrigan, Kathryn Rudie; Di Guardo, Maria Chiara; Marku, Elona
- Abstract
Changes in a firm’s backward-dispersion patent-citation score are a useful, non-financial indicator of patent value that is positively-related to Tobin’s <italic>q. V</italic>-<italic>scores</italic>, which analyze content patterns between patents’ technological-class codes and those of their antecedents, provide contemporaneous information for investors to assess firms’ economic prospects that is more time-sensitive than forward-looking information such as forward citations. V-score analysis offers useful insights about the nature of post-acquisition learning within technologically-tumultuous industries like media-services.
- Subjects
TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; PATENTS; ECONOMIC development; POST-acquisition integration (Mergers); ENTREPRENEURSHIP
- Publication
Journal of Technology Transfer, 2018, Vol 43, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0892-9912
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10961-017-9564-1