Essays on Entrepreneurial Transference of Technology and Patenting

This work is focused on the entrepreneurial processes of technology transfer and patenting exploitation. Being structured in 5 chapters, each of them was dedicated to one basic pattern of this type of entrepreneurial processes. It started with an introducing chapter on the umbrella topic of technology transfer and innovation and went along several related problematic, like the determinants of academic patent?s value, the drivers of firms? innovative behavior to assess their patent intensiveness based on coopetition relationships, the effect of R&D strategic factors based on patent transactions on the firm?s growth and the determinant factors of firm exit.