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The impact of patenting activity on the financial performance of Malaysian firms

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  • Farha Ghapar
  • Robert Brooks
  • Russell Smyth

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This study analyses the relationship between patenting activity and financial performance at the Malaysian firm level for firms that have been granted patents in Malaysia and the United States of America. We adopt the patent renewal and profit maximization model as our theoretical underpinning for this study. The patenting activity variables are measured based on the patent renewal system and the financial performance variables are measured based on the profit margin. The sample is manufacturing firms. We utilize a panel data-set spanning from 1994 to 2008 and the model is estimated using panel least squares, fixed effects, random effects and generalized method of moments with various types of effects specifications and transformations. The key finding from the empirical study is that there is a significant relationship between patenting activity and financial performance at the Malaysian firm level, but that the impact is rather small and that the signs on the coefficients are mixed. This result may reflect the level of competition that the firms faced over the period of the study, even though patenting is well known for giving firms some monopoly power.

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  • Farha Ghapar & Robert Brooks & Russell Smyth, 2014. "The impact of patenting activity on the financial performance of Malaysian firms," Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(3), pages 445-463, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjapxx:v:19:y:2014:i:3:p:445-463
    DOI: 10.1080/13547860.2014.908536
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    1. Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy & Lora Kryz C. Baje, 2018. "Assessing the Effects of Simple and Complex Innovation Strategies on the Performance of Firms in the Philippines," Working Papers id:12899, eSocialSciences.
    2. Francesco Paolo Appio & Luigi de Luca & Robert Morgan & Antonella Martini, 2019. "Patent portfolio diversity and firm profitability: A question of specialization or diversification?," Post-Print halshs-02292360, HAL.
    3. Farha Ghapar & Robert Brooks & Russell Smyth, 2014. "The impact of patenting activity on the financial performance of Malaysian firms," Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(3), pages 445-463, July.

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