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Intellectual Property Protection and Firm Innovation

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  • Liad Wagman

    (Illinois Institute of Technology)

  • Yoni Pruzansky

    (Illinois Institute of Technology)

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This paper studies the question of whether and how an employee innovator should commercialize an innovation, when doing so within the firm is less costly than pursuing an outside venture, but risks expropriation by the firm. We show that a weaker chance of expropriation, interpreted as the firm`s ability to protect internally developed intellectual property, can facilitate commercialization of innovations.

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  • Liad Wagman & Yoni Pruzansky, 2011. "Intellectual Property Protection and Firm Innovation," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 31(4), pages 2922-2932.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-11-00570
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    Keywords

    Innovation; Intellectual Property Protection; Imperfect Enforcement;
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    JEL classification:

    • L0 - Industrial Organization - - General
    • L1 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance

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