Management Decision: Volume 55 Issue 6

Introduction to the Special Issue on Intellectual Property Management: an internal and external perspective

Lara Agostini, Anna Nosella, Valentina Lazzarotti, Raffaella Manzini, Luisa Pellegrini

The patent management trichotomy: patenting, publishing, and secrecy

Marcus Holgersson, Martin W. Wallin

Extant research and practice of patent management are often occupied with how to best utilize patenting as a source of competitive advantage. The purpose of this paper is to…

Redesigning patent management process: an Action Research study

Benedetta Soranzo, Anna Nosella, Roberto Filippini

The purpose of this paper is to describe how the patent planning and patent evaluation processes might be redesigned for firms intending to move from a mere accumulation of…

Friend or foe? The effects of patent attorney use on filing strategy vis-a-vis the effects of firm experience

Sevim Süzeroğlu-Melchiors, Oliver Gassmann, Maximilian Palmié

In the intellectual property (IP) and management literature, the question of how external patent attorneys impact patent filings has been understudied. The purpose of this paper…

Fuzzy front end patent management and innovation performance: Mediating role of patent commercialization and moderating effect of technological lock-in

Li Zhao, Yang Xiang, Qiulu Yi

As a resource input in enterprise technological innovation, patents play an important role in influencing innovation performance. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the…

Corporate strategies for technology acquisition: evidence from patent transactions

Federico Caviggioli, Antonio De Marco, Giuseppe Scellato, Elisa Ughetto

The purpose of this paper is to examine, for a sample of ten corporations in three industries (i.e. automotive suppliers, semiconductors, and computer networks), the different…

Open innovation and intellectual property: a knowledge-based approach

Antonello Cammarano, Mauro Caputo, Emilia Lamberti, Francesca Michelino

The purpose of this paper is to provide a patent-based framework for investigating the effect of previous and current open innovation (OI) adoption on firms’ knowledge management…

Walking into the room with IP: exploring start-ups’ IP licensing strategy

Paola Belingheri, Maria Isabella Leone

The purpose of this paper is to explore the trends and features of one of the most visible intellectual property (IP) management practices, IP licensing, in the context of…

A dual knowledge perspective on the determinants of SME patenting: Results of an empirical investigation

Lara Agostini, Anna Nosella

Considering that SMEs are widely recognized as important innovators and, in the past years, have registered increasing levels of patenting, the purpose of this paper is to unveil…

The impact of partners’ technological diversification in joint patenting: A study on firm-PRO collaborations

Angelo Natalicchio, Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli, Achille Claudio Garavelli

The purpose of this paper is to understand if and how the technological diversifications of collaborating firms and public research organisations (PROs) affect the technological…

Patenting motives, technology strategies, and open innovation

Marcus Holgersson, Ove Granstrand

The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate firms’ motives to patent in general, and more specifically how some of these motives depend upon firms’ technology…

Open innovation and intellectual property rights: How do SMEs benefit from patents, industrial designs, trademarks and copyrights?

Alexander Brem, Petra A. Nylund, Emma L. Hitchen

The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between open innovation and the use of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)…

IP, openness, and innovation performance: an empirical study

Davide Aloini, Valentina Lazzarotti, Raffaella Manzini, Luisa Pellegrini

Intellectual property protection mechanisms (IPPMs) include a variety of methods suitable for protecting valuable intangible assets of companies, and it is of great relevance to…