Investigating the Relationship between Technological Entrepreneurship and National Innovativeness: Moderating Effects of Intellectual Property Protection and R&D Transfer Environment

Chung Doohee (), Yang Seungrin and Marhold Klaus
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Chung Doohee: Handong Global University, Pohang Gyeongbuk, South Korea
Yang Seungrin: Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Marhold Klaus: Vienna University of Economics and Business, Wien, Austria

Entrepreneurship Research Journal, 2024, vol. 14, issue 3, 1341-1371

Abstract: This study examines how technological entrepreneurship affects national innovativeness based on the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship. It also examines how technological environments related to intellectual property protection and R&D transfer moderate this relationship. Based on data from 82 countries on technological entrepreneurship, intellectual property protection and innovation activities, this study finds that a higher ratio of technological entrepreneurship in the country enhances national innovativeness. In addition, the level of R&D transfer environment is found to negatively moderate this relationship, and evidence is found for a negative moderating effect of the strength of the intellectual property protection environment in a subsample of innovation-driven economies.

Keywords: technological entrepreneurship; national innovativeness; intellectual property protection; Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship; R&D transfer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 O31 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1515/erj-2020-0530

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