%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2020 %T A Two-Staged Approach to Technology Entrepreneurship: Differential Effects of Intellectual Property Rights %A Saurav Pathak %A Etayankara Muralidharan %K entrepreneurship %K innovation %K intellectual property rights %K technology %X In this article we examine how the strength of the intellectual property rights (IPR) regime drives technology entrepreneurship innovation (TEI) that comprise novel unfamiliar technological products and new business models, which in turn lead to new product-market combinations. We consider TEI to be a two-stage process that involves access and use of new technologies and technological resources by entrepreneurs. While stronger IPR may constrain easy availability of new technologies and technological resources for entrepreneurs, use of these leads to TEI. We suggest that stronger IPR regimes could lead to TEI and its positive effect is felt through easy accessibility of the latest technologies and technology resources by entrepreneurs. Our model contributes to the understanding of the effect of strong IPR regimes on the different stages of the innovation process. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 10 %P 5-13 %8 06/2020 %G eng %U timreview.ca/article/1364 %N 6 %1 Xavier University Saurav Pathak, is an associate professor of innovation and entrepreneurship in the Williams College of Business at Xavier University. Pathak received his first Ph.D., in mechanical engineering from the University of Florida (2007) and another in entrepreneurship from the Imperial College Business School, London (2011). After his doctorate from University of Florida in 2007, he returned to India and was part of a tech-start-up named Zeus Numerix Private Limited that was incubated in the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. There he held the position of Lead Scientist and was instrumental in developing simulation software for India’s aviation industry and commercial nuclear power plants. He also holds a master’s in mechanical engineering (ME) degree from Ohio University (2003) and a Bachelor in ME from Birla Institute of Technology, India (2001). Dr. Pathak’s research revolves around cross-country comparative entrepreneurship and focuses on examining the influences of higher-order contextual factors on individual-level entrepreneurial behaviors. Recently, he has started looking into how culture-specific emotional intelligence, including perceived well-being, shapes such behaviors differently across cultures. His ongoing research projects also include predicting entrepreneurial coping strategies and self-control based on entrepreneur’s level of emotional intelligence. %2 MacEwan University Etayankara Muralidharan is an Associate Professor of Management at MacEwan University, Canada. He received his PhD in 2013 from the University of Manitoba in Canada. His research interests are in organizational crisis management and entrepreneurship. His research has been recently published in Journal Business Ethics, Business & Society, Sustainability, Cross-Cultural Management, Journal of Small Business Management, International Business Review, Thunderbird International Business Review, Management Research Review, International Journal of Innovation & Technology Management, Current Topics in Management, and has been presented at and appeared in the proceedings of the Academy of Management, Academy of International Business, Babson Entrepreneurship Conference (BCERC) and the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada. %& 5 %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1364