Many of the world`s leading firms are developing a new model of industrial organization based on systems integration. Rather than performing all productive tasks in-house, companies are building the capabilities to design and integrate systems, while managing networks of component and subsystem...

We revisit the "paradox of openness" in the literature which consists of two conflicting views on the link between patenting and open innovation — the spillover prevention and the organizational openness views. We use the data from the Survey of Innovation and Patent Use and the Community...