TY - JOUR
T1 - Patent-related intellectual property and corporate investment
AU - Narayan, Paresh Kumar
AU - Narayan, Seema
AU - Tran, Vuong Thao
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022
PY - 2023/3
Y1 - 2023/3
N2 - This paper quantifies the impact of corporate innovation on corporate tangible investment for a large panel of U.S. firms. We show that corporate innovation (research and development, patents, citations, and patent value) positively influences tangible investment and the manner in which this effect transpires is characterized by a firm's external/internal dependence on finance, technological intensity, size, maturity, and payout policy. We discover that input- and output-type innovations affect corporate investment differently, with research and development (patent value) having the least (most) effect on investment. Our analysis reveals that corporate innovation moves investments more during economic expansions than during recessions.
AB - This paper quantifies the impact of corporate innovation on corporate tangible investment for a large panel of U.S. firms. We show that corporate innovation (research and development, patents, citations, and patent value) positively influences tangible investment and the manner in which this effect transpires is characterized by a firm's external/internal dependence on finance, technological intensity, size, maturity, and payout policy. We discover that input- and output-type innovations affect corporate investment differently, with research and development (patent value) having the least (most) effect on investment. Our analysis reveals that corporate innovation moves investments more during economic expansions than during recessions.
KW - Corporate innovation
KW - Corporate investment
KW - Firms
KW - Panel estimator
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U2 - 10.1016/j.frl.2022.103530
DO - 10.1016/j.frl.2022.103530
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85143906406
SN - 1544-6123
VL - 52
JO - Finance Research Letters
JF - Finance Research Letters
M1 - 103530
ER -