The browser you are using is not supported by this website. All versions of Internet Explorer are no longer supported, either by us or Microsoft (read more here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-ie-support).

Please use a modern browser to fully experience our website, such as the newest versions of Edge, Chrome, Firefox or Safari etc.

Devrim Göktepe-Hultén. Photo.

Devrim Göktepe-Hultén

Senior lecturer

Devrim Göktepe-Hultén. Photo.

Risk attitudes, patenting and invention disclosures by academic researchers

Author

  • Rajeev K. Goel
  • Devrim Göktepe-Hultén

Summary, in English

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.

Department/s

  • Department of Business Administration

Publishing year

2019

Language

English

Pages

155-166

Publication/Series

Journal of Technology Transfer

Volume

44

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Business Administration

Keywords

  • Academic research
  • Germany
  • Invention disclosure
  • Patents
  • Risk averse

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0892-9912