The majority of research and practice tends to conceptualize innovation as a vertically coupled, intra-organizational process. We expand this perspective by conceptualizing innovation as a vertically decoupled, inter-organizational process and by studying the role of research universities as...

There has been a paucity of research to date that has explored whether incentive systems--in the form of monetary payments to inventors, their department or institution, or to university technology transfer office (UTTO) personnel--affect entrepreneurial activities at U.S. universities. To shed...

This paper studies the effects of market competition and intellectual property protection in emerging technologies such as software. In doing so, this research aims at contributing to the ongoing discussion on the possibility of broadening the scope of patent protection, in the EU, in order to...

The following sections are included: <ul><li class="bullet">Introduction</li></ul> <ul><li class="bullet">Literature Review <ul><li class="bullet"> Scope and structure of the review</li><li class="bullet"> Defining open innovation</li><li class="bullet"> Nomological network of open innovation</li><li class="bullet"> Open innovation adoption <ul><li class="bullet"> Firm characteristics</li><li class="bullet"> Technology considerations</li><li class="bullet"> External environmental conditions</li></ul> <p></li><li class="bullet"> Open innovation...</li></p></ul></li></ul>

Faculty scientists often avoid disclosing their inventions to the university’s technology licensing office (TLO), opting instead to self-license their invention. As this paper argues, TLO’s can achieve full disclosure by allowing faculty scientists to self-license their invention in return...

Patents act as an incentive to innovate. However, as this paper argues, patents can discourage some innovators from innovating, reducing knowledge spillovers. The combined result of the above suggests a concave relationship between patent protection and output growth.

The impact of IP protection on the innovation incentives of startup firms is examined in a dynamic model where an incumbent faces a sequence of potential startups and the incumbent's chance of winning an infringement lawsuit increases with the size of its patent portfolio. It is shown that...