Risk attitudes, patenting and invention disclosures by academic researchers
(2019) In Journal of Technology Transfer 44(1). p.155-166- Abstract
This paper examines the effect of risk attitudes on innovation behavior of academic researchers. Specifically, using two alternate measures of self-reported risk attitudes, we test the hypothesis that aversion to risk would negatively affect revelation of information in innovations. Results based on a sample of more than 2500 German researchers across both measures of risk aversion show that, consistent with intuition, risk aversion has a significant negative effect on invention disclosures, but not on patenting.
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- author
- Goel, Rajeev K. and Göktepe-Hultén, Devrim LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2019
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Academic research, Germany, Invention disclosure, Patents, Risk averse
- in
- Journal of Technology Transfer
- volume
- 44
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 12 pages
- publisher
- Springer
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85015642695
- ISSN
- 0892-9912
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10961-017-9573-0
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 06967b65-e378-4c2b-b8db-0021a19b54b7
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- 2017-04-05 12:33:02
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