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The purpose of this thesis is to understand the relationship of trade secrecy and covenants not
to compete. To accomplish this task a differences-in-differences analysis was conducted on a
sample of 659,945 U.S. patents generated by U.S. public companies. Empirical findings
highlight that the use of both trade secrecy and covenants not to compete has a positive
impact on the expected value and variance of the invention value distribution.