Intellectual property rights business management practices: A survey of the literature
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In this paper, a survey of the empirical literature regarding the use and management of Intellectual Property rights (IPRs) is presented, focusing on the US, Canada, EU, Japan and Australia and the protection of IP in specific industry groups.About:
This article is published in Technovation.The article was published on 2006-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 232 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Intellectual property & Valuation (finance).read more
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An approach to discovering new technology opportunities: Keyword-based patent map approach
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Detecting emerging research fronts based on topological measures in citation networks of scientific publications
TL;DR: The results showed that topological measures are beneficial in detecting branching innovation in the citation network of scientific publications.
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Managing the protection of innovations in knowledge-intensive business services
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) protect their inventions from imitation by rival firms when choosing among various protection mechanisms, including patents, registration of design patterns, trademarks, secrecy and lead-time advantages over competitors.
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Patent application and technological collaboration in inventive activities: 1980–2005
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TL;DR: This article examined the pattern of international collaboration across countries in inventive activities using the information about inventors and assignees as defined by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Appropriability of innovation results: an empirical study in spanish manufacturing firms
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a specific model of analysis, which includes various hypotheses to be tested in a sample of 258 Spanish manufacturing companies, and confirm that companies that mostly use explicit knowledge chose the patenting system as a defence mechanism, while those companies in which tacit type knowledge predominates tend to opt for industrial secret.
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