Which IP strategies do young highly innovative firms choose?

Reinhilde Veugelers and Cédric Schneider

Small Business Economics, 2018, vol. 50, issue 1, No 7, 113-129

Abstract: Abstract This paper describes and analyzes the strategies of young highly innovative companies to appropriate the returns from their innovations. Upon controlling for other firm and industry characteristics, we show that firms combining a young age and small scale with a high R&D intensive profile are more likely to use intellectual property (IP), specifically combining formal and informal appropriation mechanisms. They are especially more likely to choose secrecy in combination with formal IP. This holds primarily when they introduce more radical innovations new to the market.

Keywords: Young innovative companies; Appropriability; Patents; Secrecy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G24 O31 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s11187-017-9898-y

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