Latin American Business Review Pub Date : 2020-05-21 , DOI: 10.1080/10978526.2020.1761258 Fábio de Oliveira Paula 1 , Rodrigo Jorge Silva Rocha 1
Abstract
This paper investigates the influence of internal R&D and patent applications by Latin American firms on firm performance. Patents should have a positive direct influence on performance. Internal R&D, in turn, should have a positive direct and indirect influence (mediated by patents) as R&D generates innovations regardless of whether they are patented or not. A sample of 751 firms from six Latin American countries showed that when performance is measured by turnover growth, internal R&D has a positive influence and patents have a negative influence. Internal R&D also affects patents, showing a negative indirect influence on performance. The discussions that follow seek to explain these unexpected results.
中文翻译:
研发投资和专利对拉丁美洲公司财务业绩的影响
摘要
本文调查了拉丁美洲公司内部研发和专利申请对公司绩效的影响。专利应该对性能产生积极的直接影响。反过来,内部研发应该具有积极的直接和间接影响力(由专利来调节),因为研发无论是否获得了专利都会产生创新。对来自六个拉丁美洲国家的751家公司的抽样调查显示,以营业额增长来衡量业绩时,内部研发会产生积极影响,而专利会产生负面影响。内部研发也会影响专利,对绩效产生间接的负面影响。随后的讨论试图解释这些意外的结果。