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Born to be successful: start-up patenting activity determinants

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  • Simona Leonelli
  • Francesca Masciarelli

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Patenting is fundamental to start-up survival and growth. Research indicates that patenting enables start-ups to protect their ideas from competitors, profit from their inventions, and signal their value to stakeholders. Drawing on the resource-based theory, the paper shows that start-ups' patenting activity is related to both external and internal conditions. Relying on a sample consisting of 195 start-ups, located in Italy and France, the market scenario, that is, market dynamism and concentration, is found to affect start-ups' patenting activity. Also, the paper shows that start-ups' age is negatively related to patenting, and that entrepreneur narcissism has different impacts based on its prevailing characteristics: entitlement/exploitativeness is positively related to patenting, grandiose exhibitionism is negatively related to it, while leadership/authority shows no connection with this activity.

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  • Simona Leonelli & Francesca Masciarelli, 2021. "Born to be successful: start-up patenting activity determinants," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 43(1), pages 1-21.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijesbu:v:43:y:2021:i:1:p:1-21
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