Burke, Andrew and Fraser, Stuart. (2012) Self-employment: the role of intellectual property right laws. Small Business Economics, Vol. 39 (No. 4). ISSN 0921-898X

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Abstract

Little is known about the impact of intellectual property rights (IPRs) on typically imitative self-employment. IPR laws have contrasting dual innovation creation and access effects on selfemployment activity. The first effect is positive where strong IPR laws promote innovation and so create new opportunities for self-employment. The second effect is negative where strong IPR laws restrict access to innovation and technology used as inputs to self-employed businesses. Using a 33-country dataset over the period 1995–2000, we estimate the impact of IPR laws on self-employment, helping to fill the vacuum of empirical evidence that has plagued policy decision making in this area. We find that patent activity has a negative effect on self-employment. However, overall, we find that more extensive and strong IPR laws have a net positive effect on self-employment activity

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Centre for Small & Medium-Sized Enterprises Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Journal or Publication Title:	Small Business Economics
Publisher:	Springer New York LLC
ISSN:	0921-898X
Date:	November 2012
Volume:	Vol. 39
Number:	No. 4
Identification Number:	10.1007/s11187-011-9336-5
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/44542

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