Abstract
The strategies firms use to protect their intellectual property and knowledge can strongly influence their ability to capture the benefits of their innovative efforts. Using the attention-based theory, we explore positive and negative sides of legal appropriability. While asserting the benefits from having an orientation towards legal appropriability, we conjecture that protection myopia may lead some firms to allocate too much attention to legal appropriability, in particular when the behavioral and structural contingencies are unfavorable. Examining a panel of three successive waves of a large-scale survey data of UK manufacturing firms, we find that an orientation towards legal appropriability is curvilinearly (taking an inverted U-shape) related to innovative performance. However, this effect is only present when the firms? product innovations are radical or when they are involved in significant product improvements, and/or when their industries are low-tech.
Original language | English |
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Publication date | Jun 2013 |
Number of pages | 35 |
Publication status | Published - Jun 2013 |
Event | The 35th DRUID Celebration Conference 2013: Innovation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship: Competitiveness and Dynamics of Organizations, Technologies, Systems and Geography - ESADE Business School, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain Duration: 17 Jun 2013 → 19 Jun 2013 Conference number: 35 http://druid8.sit.aau.dk/registrant/index/login/cid/13 |
Conference
Conference | The 35th DRUID Celebration Conference 2013: Innovation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship |
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Number | 35 |
Location | ESADE Business School, Ramon Llull University |
Country/Territory | Spain |
City | Barcelona |
Period | 17/06/2013 → 19/06/2013 |
Other | The DRUID Society Conference 2013 |
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