costs of venture lending contracts. Thus, the presence of patents conveys information and is a signal of quality to the payoff distribution of the venture loans. Furthermore, we show that the company development stage negatively influences the relation between patents and capital costs, i.e., in later stages, patents seem to represent a less relevant quality signal than in earlier stages.
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