A Portrait of the Innovative Firm as a Small Patenting Entrepreneur

Martin Andersson () and Hans Lööf ()

No 127, Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation from Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies

Abstract: This paper examines small innovative entrepreneurs by contrasting patenting firms against non-patenting firms. The empirical analysis is based on new and unique data on internal attributes, location and international trade characteristics for over 20 000 manufacturing firms in Sweden with 1-25 employees. Our main findings are that firms’ access to financial means, human capital and trade with R&D-intensive economies correlate highly significant with their propensity to be engaged in innovation activities, as evidenced by patent applications. Interestingly, when controlling for firm attributes we do not find any significant effect of the local milieu on innovativeness among micro and very small firms.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property Rights; SMEs; Technology Transfer; Location; Agglomeration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F43 L26 M13 O31 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ent, nep-hrm, nep-ino, nep-int, nep-ipr, nep-mic and nep-tid
Date: 2008-04-09

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