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Cash breeds Success: The Role of Financing Constraints in Patent Races
This paper studies the impact of cash constraints on equilibrium winning probabilities in a patent race between an incumbent and an entrant. The authors develop a model where cash-constrained firms finance their R&D expenditures with an investor who cannot verify their effort.
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http://www.hec.unil.ch/deep/textes/05.11.pdf