I analyze the welfare implications of protecting intellectual property rights (IPRs) in developing countries through its impact on innovation, market structure, and technology transfer. FDI, tariffs, and cooperation are introduced to the strategic IPR literature. In a North-South framework, the Southern government sets the IPR policy strategically by anticipating the Northern firm’s decision on...

Knowledge-based view (KBV) theory posits that the acquisition and use of relevant knowledge is key to understanding organizational performance. However, there is relatively little empirical evidence to support or refute several important propositions underlying KBV theory explanations of organizational performance. In particular, the extant literature has focused on individual technical and sci...

China’s digital ventures are becoming increasingly popular on the global landscape, attracting signif-icant attention on their digital innovation ecosystem; meanwhile, the reduction of communication cost and the convergence of digital technology are distributing the control over innovation activities and amplifying the knowledge heterogeneity, inducing a serious challenge. Facing this problem, ...

Using patent citations as a proxy for the influence of foreign technology on French firms’ patents, this paper finds that the inventions of importers are significantly more likely to be influenced by foreign technology than are the inventions of firms that do not import. Furthermore, importers’ citations increase relative to similar firms after they start importing. Exporting, in contrast, is n...

Predicting the evolution of software engineering technology is, at best, a dubious proposition; most typically, it is a frustrating exercise in disappointment and anxiety. It is not difficult to see why: the evolution of software technology is fast paced, and is determined by a dizzying array of factors, many of them outside the arena of software engineering, and most of them cannot be identifi...

An increase in strategic research partnerships (SRPs) involving U.S. firms and nonprofit organizations could be due to more intense foreign competition and policies promoting collaborative research, such as the National Cooperative Research Act (NCRA). NCRA allows firms to file research joint ventures (RJVs) with the Justice Department and reduce their exposure to antitrust litigation. We estim...

Bio BIO Dr. Tina Seelig is Professor of the Practice in the Department of Management Science and Engineering (MS&E) at Stanford University. She is also a faculty director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), the entrepreneurship center at Stanford University's School of Engineering. She teaches courses on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship in MS&E and the Hasso Plattner...

This paper empirically studies two types of networks, one formed through U.S. patent citations (Patent network) and another formed through the participation in research joint ventures (RJV network) among R&D intensive organizations in the U.S. context. The Patent network is a product of the exchange of technological information among R&D organizations under the patent system. The RJV network is...

1. The Funding System 2. The Old Rules: Sharing Publicly Funded R&D with the Public 3. The New Rules: Promoting Innovation Through Autonomy of and Responsibility for Intellectual Property Exploitation a) Model Rules for subsidized R&D of Industry (i) Autonomy and Exclusivity (ii) Responsibility for Protection and Exploitation b) Equal Treatment of Public Research Organizations (PROs) c) Specifi...

The Internet is providing new opportunities for individuals and businesses to be creative and explore Information and Communication Technology (ICT) ventures in ways not previously possible. As Amit and Zott (2001) note, “business conducted over the Internet (which we refer to as ‘e-business’), with its dynamic, rapidly growing, and highly competitive characteristics, promises new avenues for t...