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Modelling stock market performance of firms as a function of the quality and quantity of intellectual property owned

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dc.contributor.advisor Hicks, Diana
dc.contributor.advisor Rouse, William B.
dc.contributor.author Chauhan, Lokendra Pratap Singh en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember Bodner, Douglas
dc.contributor.department Public Policy en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2007-08-16T17:51:47Z
dc.date.available 2007-08-16T17:51:47Z
dc.date.issued 2007-07-12 en_US
dc.description.abstract This thesis attempts to analyze a part of the big and complex process of how intellectual property ownership and technological innovation influence the performance of firms and their revenues. Here I analyze a firm's stock market performance as a function of the quantity and quality of intellectual property (patents) owned by the firm in context of the three US high-technology sectors, Pharmaceuticals, Semiconductors and Wireless. In these sectors, value of a firm is predominantly driven by the technologies which a firm owns. I use citation based indicators and number of claims to measure the quality of patents. This research presents empirical evidence for the hypothesis that in high-tech sectors, companies which generate better quality intellectual property perform better than average in the stock market. I also posit that firms which are producing better quality technologies (good R&D) invest more in R&D regardless of their market performance. Furthermore, though smaller firms get relatively less returns on quality and quantity of innovation, they tend to invest a bigger fraction of their total assets in R&D when they are generating high quality patents. Larger firms enjoy the super-additivity effects in terms of market performance as the same intellectual property gives better returns to them. In addition, returns to R&D are relatively higher in the pharmaceutical industry than semiconductor or wireless industries. en_US
dc.description.degree M.S. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/16218
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject Intangible assets en_US
dc.subject Citations en_US
dc.subject Returns to R & D en_US
dc.subject Lagged returns en_US
dc.subject Patents en_US
dc.subject IP valuation en_US
dc.subject Patent analysis en_US
dc.subject Tobin's Q en_US
dc.subject Patent claims en_US
dc.title Modelling stock market performance of firms as a function of the quality and quantity of intellectual property owned en_US
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local.contributor.advisor Hicks, Diana
local.contributor.advisor Rouse, William B.
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local.contributor.corporatename Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
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