Intellectual Property Protection Mechanisms and the Characteristics of Founding Teams

Sara Amoroso and Albert Link

No 2019-01, JRC Working Papers on Corporate R&D and Innovation from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: Intellectual property protection mechanisms (IPPMs) are critical to fostering innovation and their relevance has grown enormously with the increased trade in goods and services involving intellectual property. Scholars have investigated what factors facilitate or hinder the use of such IP protection strategies, identifying country, sector, and firm characteristics. However, the extant literature has overlooked the role of founding team characteristics on the choice of IPPMs. Using data from a large sample of European small and young entrepreneurial firms, we show that controlling for size, R&D intensity, and other firms and market effects, the founding team characteristics such as gender and education greatly influence the choice of IPPMs.

Keywords: IP choice; patents; appropriability; entrepreneurship; knowledge intensive firms; gender; AEGIS survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 M13 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2019-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-cse, nep-ent, nep-eur, nep-ino, nep-ipr, nep-knm, nep-sbm and nep-tid
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