Entrepreneurial R&D: an organizational design for enhanced patent productivity

Summary form only given. Intellectual property (IP) is showing signs of becoming the principal source of shareholder wealth and competitive advantage and will be the main wealth pusher in days to come. Unlocking IP within an organization requires a focused drive towards result oriented R&D which is possible with an entrepreneurial orientation within R&D. The organization design correlates that will maximize patent productivity are the push factors of IP. This paper considers two approaches to understanding the push factors of IP-the understanding an organization has of its patent productivity and diagnosis of the internal processes of an organization that maximize IP