The patent management trichotomy: patenting, publishing, and secrecy
| Autor: | Marcus Holgersson, Martin W. Wallin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Value (ethics)
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Management Science and Operations Research General Business Management and Accounting Competitive advantage Trade secret Appropriation Originality 0502 economics and business Secrecy Economics Trichotomy (philosophy) 050207 economics Marketing 050203 business & management Industrial organization IP address management media_common |
| Zdroj: | Management Decision. 55:1087-1099 |
| ISSN: | 0025-1747 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/md-03-2016-0172 |
| Popis: | PurposeExtant research and practice of patent management are often occupied with how to best utilize patenting as a source of competitive advantage. The purpose of this paper is to suggest a patent management trichotomy where firms make strategic decisions between patenting, publishing, and secrecy.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is conceptual in nature and draws on received IP management literature to develop an analytical framework.FindingsThe authors suggest that the choice between patenting, publishing, and secrecy can be understood in terms of differences in the degree to which the firm can appropriate value from the invention and the degree to which it can operate freely.Originality/valueThrough an analysis along the dimensions of direct and indirect appropriation as well as static and dynamic freedom to operate, the paper conceptualizes the choice between patenting, publishing, and secrecy in a way useful for managers as well as for academics. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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