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M2685 - MUNARI TEXT.indd 359 M2685 - MUNARI TEXT.indd 359 29/07/2011 10:03 29/07/2011 10:03 Federico Munari and Raffaele Oriani - 9781848445482 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 10/06/2016 04:38:53PM via CitEc (NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION, SHARING or POSTING) The economic valuation of patents APPENDIX 2 MEASURES OF R&D AND PATENT STOCKS The studies on innovation and market value have used two main proxies for the knowledge capital (K): R&D- and patent-based. In the absence of patent data, Griliches (1995) defines the following formal relationship between a firm’s stock of technological knowledge and R&D investments: K = G [W(B)R, w] [A2.1] where K is the current level of technological knowledge, W(B)R is an index of current and past R&D expenditures and w is the set of unmeasured influences on the accumulated level of knowledge described above.
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- Marginal information content studies investigate the effect of a patent event on firm market value. For example, Austin (1993) estimates the following event model: (rit 2 rft) 5 ai 1 bi (rmt 2 rft) 1 a v dvDvt 1 ei [A3.3] where rit is return on shares in firm i over the time t event window; rft is the risk-free rate of return at time t, rmt is the return on value-weighted S&P 500 market index at time t and Dvt is an indicator variable equal to 1 if event v occurs within the time t window, 0 otherwise. In particular, the Dvt dummy stands for various types of patent events such the grant of a new patent.
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