The business history, industrial economics, and research management literatures have long
recognized some kind of connection between innovation, intellectual property, and the …

Purpose–The purpose of the paper is to provide a taxonomy of values created by corporate
patents. Design/methodology/approach–Following an extensive literature review, value …

Based on a survey questionnaire administered to 1478 R&D labs in the US manufacturing
sector in 1994, we find that firms typically protect the profits due to invention with a range of …

This paper reviews the contribution of Teece's article [Teece, D., 1986. Profiting from
technological innovation: implications for integration, collaboration, licensing and public …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine, for a sample of ten corporations in three
industries (ie automotive suppliers, semiconductors, and computer networks), the different …

US companies and others potentially lose billions of dollars annually as a result of
inadequate intellectual property protection from foreign companies. US firms also find …

During the 1980s, changes in the US legal environment ushered in an era characterized by
strong patent rights. This paper examines the effects of this “pro-patent” shift on firms in the …

In many organizations, the R&D, strategy, and legal functions are poorly integrated. As a
consequence, firms miss opportunities to create and exploit the value of intellectual property …

Why and how do resources provide sources of competitive advantage? This study sheds
new light on this central question of resource‐based theory by allowing a single resource …