Open Innovation and Intellectual Property - The Double-Edged Sword

16 Pages Posted: 4 Nov 2012

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Mokter Hossain

Qatar University; Qatar University - Center for Entrepreneurship

Date Written: November 4, 2012

Abstract

Open innovation concept changes the course of many strategic functions in the business world. At least, due to openness of innovation, intellectual property (IP) management is witnessing a new and unique type of experience, which requires different strategies for firms to take. Many leading companies are earning a fair amount of their revenues from IP out-licensing. Others are heavily involved with IP in-licensing to reduce their internal R&D costs or IP cross-licensing for mutual benefits. Some are winning and other are losing in this newly developed IPs regime. Thus, IP is a glowingly pivotal player in the open innovation phenomenon. The study aims to explore this relatively new phenomenon - how IP plays roles in open innovation paradigm - which has so far been studied very sparsely. The paper concludes with a suggested research agenda and provides some managerial implications to find insight on the role of intellectual property in open innovation paradigm.

Keywords: Intellectual Property, Licensing, Open Innovation, Open Software, Open Standard, Technology

Suggested Citation

Hossain, Mokter and Hossain, Mokter, Open Innovation and Intellectual Property - The Double-Edged Sword (November 4, 2012). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2170988 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2170988

Mokter Hossain (Contact Author)

Qatar University - Center for Entrepreneurship ( email )

2713 Doha
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Qatar University ( email )

2713 Doha
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