We provide new insights into the role of individual inventors in innovation. We focus our analysis on prolific … inventors in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. We analyse patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to thousands of …

particular industry - standards generate potential for market power far beyond the legal protection conferred by patents. Patent … that have fueled antitrust debates and economic research during the last decade. On the one hand, patent owners may be … a patent pool may actually be pro-competitive. After a brief introduction, we explain in the first part why, and on what …

information goods, based on von ippel's user-as-innovator principle (1988): as users benefit from innovation, they have incentive … to produce it, and as they can expect cumulative innovation on their own proposition, they have incentive to share it …

This paper investigates the choice of an intellectual protection regime for a process innovation. We set up a multi …-stage model in which choosing between patent and trade secrecy is affected by three parameters : the patent strength defined as … the probability that the right is upheld by the court, the cost of imitating a patented innovation relative to the cost of …

the main strategic implications of such a complex picture. We first survey the main patent functions : innovation … protection, functions related to trade and finance, defensive roles, and patent as an input in the innovation process. We then …

the heart of open source model since licenses that organize the innovation and business relationships between developers … licenses and the creation of patent commons, are a testiment to a genuinely creative use of IP law by the open source community …

model in which manufacturers must buy licenses from different patent owners in order to enter the market for differentiated …

comparative analysis framework contributing to the assessment of participative design methods for rural innovation with regard to … explorative innovation. We used a framework proposed by Charue-Duboc et al. (2010) as an entry point to build an analytical grid … framework we propose makes it possible to assess the capacity of these methods to foster exploratory innovation and enhance …

Purpose This paper aims to provide evidence of the major role of non-technological activities in the innovation process …. It highlights the effects of marketing and organizational innovation strategies on technological innovation performance …. Design/methodology/approach The article tests theoretical hypotheses on a sample of 555 firms of the 4th Community Innovation …