Dataset for analysis of the impact of intellectual property management on innovation and firm performance of Vietnamese Start-ups

IP management, innovation, and firm performance are closely interrelated. IP management helps the company push its innovation capacity (Bainbridge and Howell, 2014) and assure IP not being stagnated by imitators (Kubis, 2011). At firm level, royalty rates have been witnessed in firms with strong IP portfolios since innovation and IP are premium in competitive fields such as high-tech industry (Grindley and Teece, 1997). IP should be included in companies’ innovation process, from idea conceptualization to product commercialization, which enables a success of launching new products to the market (Bainbridge and Howell, 2014). IP can become constructive to firm performance (Bollen, 2005) or even become a key to enter foreign markets (Neuhausler, 2012). The dataset includes two main information groups. The first part consists of information related to characteristics of respondents and enterprises, including gender of owners (3 categories), location, company name, and year of establishment. Top leaders/managers or a member of the executive board who is knowledgeable about the business's operations answer all questions. The results collected 294 valid responses through a two-wave survey