Open patents, closed exits: Tesla’s patent pledge and venture exit in China
Date: Mon Jun 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) at 12:30 - 14:00
Location: Online via Zoom
Join our climaTRACES workshop with Ziming Wang, PhD Student, University of Tokyo. Open patents, c… Open patents, c… 22 Jun 2026 12:30 -14:00 Open to: All Online via Zoom Category: climaTRACES Lab events Economics and Policy seminar series Research seminars Speaker: Ziming Wang, PhD student, University of Tokyo This paper examines how Tesla’s 2014 patent pledge affected entrepreneurial outcomes in China. Using venture capital investment data on Chinese startups from Tesla’s founding month to the end of 2019, we employ a difference-in-differences design comparing Tesla-related ventures with other startups before and after the pledge. We find that Tesla-related ventures experienced a significant decline in successful exit rates after Tesla’s patent pledge. The result is robust to rich fixed e
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