新创企业专利信号与风险投资估值——突破性、渐进性创新专利与风险情境因素

Translated title of the contribution: The Signaling Effect of Start-up's Patents on VC Valuation: The Role of Radical and Incremental Innovation Patents and Contextual Risk Factors

Jin Chen, Songlian Tang, Mingjue Zhang, Junru Li

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Abstract

前人考察新创企业专利信号机制与风险投资(VC)估值的关系,多持专利传递增值或风险单一信息的观点。本文结合信号理论和前景理论,提出专利传递增值与风险双重信息的新观点,研究创新程度不同的专利(突破性创新专利、渐进性创新专利)及风险情境因素(投资轮次、历投VC数、VC地位)如何影响高科技新创企业的VC估值。选取我国2004~2013年获VC投资的225家信息技术新创企业为样本,我们发现:企业的突破性、渐进性创新专利越多,VC估值越高,但这两类专利与风险情境因素的交互效应不同。随着投资轮次或历投VC数增加,突破性创新专利对VC估值的正向影响强度减弱;随着VC地位提高,渐进性创新专利对VC估值的正向影响强度减弱。这些结果说明VC把专利同时解读成增值与风险两种信息,并基于不同情境做出动态权衡。本研究丰富了专利信号机制的内涵(从单一信息到双重信息),拓展了对专利信号影响方式的理解(从数量到创新程度),明晰了专利信号机制的边界条件(从主效应到调节效应),从而加深了对高科技新创企业如何运用专利吸引VC融资的理解。
Translated title of the contributionThe Signaling Effect of Start-up's Patents on VC Valuation: The Role of Radical and Incremental Innovation Patents and Contextual Risk Factors
Original languageChinese (Simplified)
Pages (from-to)72–93,136–137
Number of pages24
JournalQuarterly Journal of Management
Issue number04
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • start-ups
  • radical innovation patents
  • incremental innovation patents
  • contextual risk factors
  • venture capitalists' valuation

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