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Over the past decade, the Indian entrepreneurial ecosystem has witnessed a steep growth in the number of incubators within academic environments. While most of these have focused on provision of tangible and intangible resources, the understanding about processes and routines that transform these resources into capabilities, which ultimately transl...
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Patents help in protecting research and development efforts in an organization. They are known to increase valuation during merger and acquisition and act as signal for investors to make investment decisions in startups. Despite the value that patents add to a firm, vast majority of patents remain unutilised across larger organizations. Environmental, Social, and Governance investing is gaining popularity and investors are increasingly using ESG analysis to make investments. In this paper, we studied startups that are funded. Further, we identified and filtered out startups that are ESG compliant. We found that startups that are ESG compliant have better patent utilization. We believe that startups that are ESG compliant will foster responsible investing and sustainable innovation.
