Effects of patenting behavior on corporate growth: A panel data analysis of German start-up firms

Michaela Niefert

A chapter in Innovation, Industrial Dynamics and Structural Transformation, 2007, pp 373-390 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The present paper examines the relationship between innovations and employment growth in start-up firms. Patent applications are used as an indicator of innovative activity, using a merged data set of German enterprise and patent data. By applying fixed-effects and first-differencing panel data methods, it is shown that patenting activity has a positive effect on employment growth in the second year after application. Patenting firms do not generally exhibit higher growth rates than their non-patenting counterparts; instead, growth performance depends on their patenting activity over time.

Keywords: Employment growth; Patents; Gibrat’s law; Panel data models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-49465-2_19

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