Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state …-sanctioned intellectual property rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect … intellectual property (IP). We investigate the impact of modularity on IP protection by formally modeling three different threats …

Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state …-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect … IP. We investigate the impact of modularity on IP protection by formally modeling the threat of expropriation by agents …

the mix, Professor Smith adds modularity, in which there are intense interactions within, and few interactions between …, components.Before displacing more traditional explanations, however, the theory faces substantial obstacles. This essay … articulates six such challenges: (1) explaining why modularity should be IP's defining feature, (2) accounting for the roles …

In this paper we explain how firms seeking to take advantage of distributed innovation and outsourcing can bridge the …, we introduce the concept of “IP modularity”, a special form of modularity that seeks to protect and capture value from …