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Patent or Perish : Why Your Innovation Can Be Your Competitor's Free Lunch
Saluja, Navtej; Rawat, Balwant - 2009
Global research and analytics firm, Evalueserve, drew an interesting comparison between Tata's much awaited Nano and the colorful Crocs footwear. The funny-looking Crocs footwear that initially elicited stares and snickers had suddenly become serious business after its launch. However, since the...
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The Influence of Strategic Patenting on Companies' Patent Portfolios
Blind, Knut; Cremers, Katrin; Mueller, Elisabeth - 2014
This paper analyses whether strategic motives for patenting influence the characteristics of companies' patent portfolios. We use the number of citations and oppositions to represent these characteristics. The investigation is based on survey and patent data from German companies. We find clear...
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Does Competitive Strategy Protect Companies from Intellectual Property Free Riding?
Veer, Theresa; Blind, Knut - 2014
Companies with a distinct competitive strategy are attractive targets for free riding of intellectual property (IP) as copying their products either provides high margins (differentiation) or opens large markets (cost leadership). However, a clever combination of a competitive strategy with a...
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Blue Ocean Versus Competitive Strategy : Theory and Evidence
Burke, Andrew E.; van Stel, Andre J.; Thurik, Roy - 2012
Blue ocean strategy seeks to turn strategic management on its head by replacing ‘competitive advantage’ with ‘value innovation’ as the primary goal where firms must create consumer demand and exploit untapped markets. Empirical analysis has been focused on case study evidence and so...
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The design of licensing contracts : chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and electrical engineering in imperial Germany
Burhop, Carsten; Lübbers, Thorsten - 2011
We investigate a sample of 180 technology licensing contracts closed by German chemical, pharmaceutical, and electrical … design of licensing contracts, whereas inventor moral hazard and risk aversion of licensor or licensee seem to be irrelevant … licensing contracts. More specifically, profit sharing agreements or producer milestones were typically included into licensing …
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Institutional influences on strategic entrepreneurial behaviours
Autio, Erkko; Acs, Zoltán J. - 2009
. -- strategic entrepreneurship ; multi-level analysis ; intellectual property protection ; growth aspirations …
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Necessity entrepreneurship and competitive strategy
Block, Jörn; Kohn, Karsten; Miller, Danny; Ullrich, Katrin - 2014
, socio-economic attributes, and start-up project characteristics that correlate with necessity entrepreneurship. …
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Necessity Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy
Block, Jörn - 2014
, socio-economic attributes, and start-up project characteristics that correlate with necessity entrepreneurship …
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IP Competitive Intelligence : What is My Competitor Really Up To?
Rawat, Balwant; Saluja, Navtej - 2012
Ever wondered what Google has been up to lately? How about Yahoo!, Microsoft, IBM or other high tech companies? Many professionals, companies and organisations frequently ask similar questions about their key competitors. However, since this information is proprietary and highly confidential,...
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Jostling for advantage : licensing and entry into patent portfolio races
Siebert, Ralph; Graevenitz, Georg von - 2006
Licensing in a patent thicket allows firms to either avoid or resolve hold-up. Firms' R&D incentives depend on whether … study firms' choice between ex ante and ex post licensing. The model shows that firms' relationships in product markets and … technology space jointly determine the type of licensing contract chosen. In particular, product market competitors are more …
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