@article{10272/23836,
year = {2019},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23836},
abstract = {Using recent data drawn from the European Working Conditions Survey for 32 European countries, we explore the relationship between country-level expenditures on R&D, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), and individual-level entrepreneurial performance as measured by earnings. Our results show that both R&D expenditures and IPR are positively associated with earnings (and hence the quality) of individual entrepreneurs. However, we also find an intriguing moderation effect in the sense that IPR reduces the positive relationship between country R&D and entrepreneurial earnings. This suggests that too strict IPR legislation may hamper the diffusion of knowledge created by R&D. Hence, governments need to carefully consider the level of IPR they want to install, especially in countries with high R&D expenditures.},
organization = {Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad: Proyectos ECO2017-86305-C4-2-R y ECO2017-86402-C2-2-R. 
Junta de Andalucía: Grupo de investigación SEJ-487 (Spanish Entrepreneurship Research Group – SERG). 
Universidad de Huelva: Estrategia de Política de Investigación y Transferencia.},
publisher = {Springer},
title = {The moderating role of IPR on the relationship between country-level R&D and individual-level entrepreneurial performance},
doi = {10.1007/s10961-019-09731-2},
author = {Van Stel, André and Lyalkov, Serhiy and Millán, Ana and Millán Tapia, José María},
}