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Profiting from technological innovation: Implications for integration, collaboration, licensing and public policy

In: The Transfer And Licensing Of Know-How And Intellectual Property Understanding the Multinational Enterprise in the Modern World

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  • David J. TEECE

    (School of Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A.)

Abstract

This paper attempts to explain why innovating firms often fail to obtain significant economic returns from an innovation, while customers, imitators and other industry participants benefit. Business strategy – particularly as it relates to the firm's decision to integrate and collaborate – is shown to be an important (actor. The paper demonstrates that when imitation easy. markets don't work wen, and the profits (rom innovation may accrue to the owners of certain complementary assets. rather than to the developers of the intellectual property. This speaks to the need, in certain cases, for the innovating firm to establish a prior position in these complementary assets. The paper also indicates that innovators with new products and processes which provide value to consumers may sometimes be so ill positioned in the market that they necessarily win fai1. The analysis provides a theoretical foundation (or the proposition that manufacturing often matters. particularly to innovating nations. Innovating finns without the requisite manufacturing and related capacities may die. even though they are the best at innovation. Implications for trade policy and domestic economic policy are examined.

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  • David J. TEECE, 2008. "Profiting from technological innovation: Implications for integration, collaboration, licensing and public policy," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: The Transfer And Licensing Of Know-How And Intellectual Property Understanding the Multinational Enterprise in the Modern World, chapter 5, pages 67-87, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
  • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789812833181_0005
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    Keywords

    Technology Transfer; Royalties; Licensing; Cross Licensing; Intellectual Property; Multinational Enterprise; Research and Development; Foreign Investment;
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    JEL classification:

    • C44 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Operations Research; Statistical Decision Theory
    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D

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