SCALE-UPS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGICAL AND COMMERCIALISATION CAPABILITIES IN FIRM GROWTH

Marcel Seip, Anne van der Heijden and Marleen Bax
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Marcel Seip: Netherlands Enterprise Agency, Prinses Beatrixlaan 2, 2595 AL, The Hague, The Netherlands
Anne van der Heijden: ��Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship, Marconistraat 16, 3029 AK, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Marleen Bax: ��Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship, Marconistraat 16, 3029 AK, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2022, vol. 26, issue 04, 1-27

Abstract: This paper studies the role of technological and commercialisation capabilities within scale-ups. Scale-ups are firms which manage to achieve an annual growth rate of at least 20% over a period of at least three years and with at least 10 employees in the beginning of the period. Based on evidence from IPR literature, we use patent filings to signal capabilities related to technological innovation and trademark filings to signal the downstream capabilities connected with the commercialisation of new products and services. By comparing the IPR flings of the top 250 scale-ups with other scale-ups and non-scale-up firms, this paper provides evidence that commercialisation capabilities contribute more to the growth of these firms than technological capabilities. Scale-ups tend to file trademarks already at a young age indicating that these capabilities are already present when these firms start off whereas patents are filed later on.

Keywords: Scale-ups; firm growth; firm capabilities; intellectual property rights; patents; trademarks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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