Cambridge Business Magazine: Venture capital investment doesn’t lead to more patents
Venture capital investment does not boost patents by technology firms, finds a study co-authored by Dr Andrea Mina, University Lecturer in Economics of Innovation and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Business Research at Cambridge Judge Business School. “Patenting…
Business Weekly: Value of patents on VC – myth exploded
Venture capital investment does not boost patents by technology firms, finds new study. The number of patents obtained by technology firms is an often-used benchmark of supposed innovation, and some previous studies have found a positive link between venture capital…
San Francisco Chronicle: Venture capital investment does not boost patents by technology firms
The effect of venture capital on the patenting output of tech firms is insignificant or negative, finds a study by Andrea Mina, University Lecturer in Economics of Innovation and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Business Research at Cambridge…
VC and patents
Venture capital investment does not boost patents by technology firms, finds new study at University of Cambridge Judge Business School. 'Patenting has much sharper effects on VC investments than the other way around'. Venture capital firms are successful by picking…

The Guardian: How Britain’s economy got dumber: Pfizer’s bid for AstraZeneca
Reporter Aditya Chakrabortty looks at the history of AstraZeneca and the importance of spending on R&D. Research by Andrea Mina, University Lecturer in the Economics of Innovation and Alan Hughes, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Business Research is…
Firing the grey cells for business success
Research by Professor Alan Hughes has played a pivotal role in the rollout of the highly successful Catapult Centres, which exist to encourage collaboration between academics and entrepreneurs. The Government's decision to expand the network of UK Catapult Centres is…

Cambridge Network: Dynamic paper scoops award for Dr Andrea Mina
The cost of R&D and innovation is the subject of an award-winning paper by Cambridge Judge Business School’s Andrea Mina. Cr Mina, CJBS Lecturer in Economics of Innovation, and Henry Lahr, a Research Fellow from Cambridge’s Centre for Business Research,…
Dynamic paper scoops award for Dr Andrea Mina
The cost of R&D and innovation is the subject of an award-winning paper by CJBS's Andrea Mina. Andrea, CJBS Lecturer in Economics of Innovation, and Henry Lahr, a Research Fellow from Cambridge's Centre for Business Research, won the Best Paper…

Research Fellows win CONCORDi-2013 Best Paper Award at 4th European Conference on Corporate R&D and Innovation in Seville
The CONCORDi-2013 Scientific Committee granted the CONCORDi-2013 Best Paper Award to the best selected work presented at the 4th European Conference on Corporate R&D and Innovation which took place on 26-27 September 2013 in Seville. The paper "Dynamic financial constraints…

Final FINNOV (Financing Innovation and Growth) conference takes place
Members of the Centre for Business Research (CBR) contributed to the final conference of the FP7 FINNOV project (Finance, Innovation & Growth), which focused on the need for finance to be reformed so that it serves innovation and value creation…
