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Patenting Strategy of Entrepreneurial Orientated Firms in New Zealand

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Patenting is regarded as an important area for firms wanting to capture the strategic value of intellectual property. Further, patents are often used as a proxy for innovation— i.e., a firm with a large number of patents is said to be innovative. At the same time, a firm that is innovative is also said to have an entrepreneurial orientation (EO). In spite of this apparent linkage between an EO and patenting, little empirical evidence strategically links the two constructs. This paper addresses this gap by providing one of the first studies examining the relationship between an EO and patenting.

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  1. Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University, 1021 North Dartmouth Avenue, Claremont, CA, 91711

    Jenny Darroch

  2. Department of Marketing, College of Business Administration, Georgia Southern University, PO Box 8154, Statesboro, GA, 30460

    Morgan P. Miles

  3. Department of Marketing, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Tim Buisson

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Darroch, J., Miles, M.P. & Buisson, T. Patenting Strategy of Entrepreneurial Orientated Firms in New Zealand. Entrepreneurship Mgt. 1, 45–59 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-005-6675-1

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