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Patents and entrepreneurship: The impact of opportunity, motivation and ability

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Summary, in English

In this study, we examine individual patent holders and the fate of their inventions. A unique database consisting of over 800 private individuals who have obtained decision rights over a new technology in Sweden is used to analyse how opportunity and individual level characteristics are related to the likelihood that patented inventions are commercialised in a new or existing small firm. Our findings show that the likelihood that patent holders commercialise inventions through such an entrepreneurial mode is influenced by opportunity novelty and the perceived entrepreneurial ability of the individual.

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Pages

142-166

Publication/Series

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business

Volume

19

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Inderscience Publishers

Topic

  • Economics and Business
  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
  • Business Administration

Keywords

  • patents
  • entrepreneurship
  • start-ups
  • small firms
  • technological opportunity
  • motivation
  • ability
  • technology commercialisation
  • exploitation

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1741-8054