Abstract: Despite the fact that one of the main goals of corporate venture capital (CVC) investments in high-tech industries is to gain a window on future technologies, the relationship between CVC investments and strategies used to acquire technologies in the markets, such as licensing, has not...

Existing research has focused on why and when firms may choose to access the external technology market. Surprisingly, however, less is known about the reliability of the patents attached to these external technologies in the face of litigation. “Weak” external patents expose a firm to the...

Platform ecosystems characterized by a few platform owners and numerous other complementor firms that partner with them have become quite common across industries. Even though there has been considerable research on platform ecosystems, attention has mostly been on the platform owners and their...