Reflections on “Profiting from Innovation”

Innovation, Demand, and Responsibility: Some Fundamental Questions About Health Systems; Comment on “What Health System Challenges Should Responsible Innovation in Health Address? Insights From an International Scoping Review”

In this commentary on the exercise of Lehoux et al (this volume) I argue that in discussions on the current challenges of health systems, a better diagnosis of the health system is required. The cause of responsible innovation in health (RIH) requires a better understanding of the dynamics of health systems, in particular how innovation, demand, and responsibility are m...

Profiting from Innovation in the Digital Economy: Standards, Complementary Assets, and Business Models In the Wireless World

Towards a regional innovation system? The role of a regional university

This is a study of development of a network towards an innovation system in the context of a cluster in mature electronics industry, and how the regional university can contribute as a catalyst in this process. Innovation is acknowledged as one of the most important factors on value creation. Promotion of innovation can be seen as the promotion of clustering and networking because innovation is...

Profiting from voluntary information spillovers: How users benefit by freely revealing their innovations∗

Empirical studies of innovation have found that end users frequently develop important product and process innovations. Defying conventional wisdom on the negative effects of uncompensated spillovers, innovative users also often openly reveal their innovations to competing users and to manufacturers. Rival users are thus in a position to reproduce the innovation in-house and benefit from using ...

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

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 factor. The paper demonstrates that when imitation is easy, markets don’t work wel...