Federal and Industrial Funded Research Expenditures and University Technology Transfer licensing
By Trent Chiang In this paper I relate the numbers of university licenses and options to both university research characteristics and research expenditures from federal government or industrial sources. I apply the polynomial distributed lag model for unbalanced panel data to understand the effects of research expenditures from different sources on licensing activity. We find […]
How Information from a Strategic Alliance Network Relates to Future Acquisition Performance in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries
by Stephen Raymond Abstract Acquisitions in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology field have been fueled by a variety of factors ranging from riding strong equity markets to lucid managerial hubris. In all cases, asymmetric information, specifically the moral hazard problem between acquiring and target firms, played large roles in the final value of any acquisition; target […]
