Exploring the impact of R&D on patenting activity in small women-owned and minority-owned entrepreneurial firms

Albert Link and Martijn van Hasselt

Small Business Economics, 2020, vol. 54, issue 4, No 8, 1066 pages

Abstract: Abstract The relevant economics literature on the impact of R&D on patenting activity falls within two methodological areas of inquiry. The first area might be classified as a test of the Schumpeterian hypothesis. The second and lesser research area might be classified as an estimation of the knowledge production function relationship between R&D and patenting. This paper focuses on estimates of the R&D-to-patenting relationship for a random sample of small, entrepreneurial firms whose research projects were supported through the US Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Our paper contributes to the R&D-to-patenting literature in two ways. It examines empirically a unique set of small, entrepreneurial firms funded by the public sector, and it explores the effect of the gender and ethnicity of firm owners on the propensity of their firms to patent from funded research projects.

Keywords: Patenting; R&D; Entrepreneurship; Gender; Minorities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J16 L26 O32 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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