Climate impact, institutional context, and national climate change adaptation IP protection rates

Hyungseok Yoon, Peter Tashman, Mirko H. Benischke, Jonathan Doh and Namil Kim

Journal of Business Venturing, 2024, vol. 39, issue 1

Abstract: We study how the physical effects of climate change motivate entrepreneurs to develop and protect climate change adaptation (CCA) intellectual property (IP) in heterogeneous ways across countries. Integrating the sustainable entrepreneurship literature with the attention-based view, we show that country-level climate impact redirects managerial attention to the disruptive potential of climate change and spurs the sector into action to pursue and protect CCA-related IP. We also find that strong intellectual-property rights regulations and environmental movements in countries strengthen this effect. Our results extend the sustainable entrepreneurship literature by showing how the geography of climate impact explains how CCA IP protection efforts are distributed globally.

Keywords: Climate impact; Climate change adaptation; Innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2023.106359

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