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Why do firms give a...
Why do firms give away their patents for free?
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- Ziegler, Nicole, 1982 (författare)
- Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology
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- Gassmann, O. (författare)
- Universität St. Gallen,University of St Gallen
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- Friesike, S. (författare)
- Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
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Chalmers tekniska högskola Universität St Gallen (creator_code:org_t)
- Elsevier BV, 2014
- 2014
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: World Patent Information. - : Elsevier BV. - 0172-2190. ; 37, s. 19-25
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Abstract
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- Within the trend of increasing patent commercialisation and open innovation, a recent phenomenon where firms give away their patents free of charge can be observed. This seems contradictory to the original intention of the patent system (enabling firms to create temporary monopolies to appropriate returns from their R&D investments). Consequently, this paper explores why firms make their patents available for free and which benefits they may gain from this behaviour. Adopting the open source software phenomenon as a background and using firm data from 26 patent release cases, we identify a typology consisting of four motives of 'free patent release approaches': profit making, cost cutting, innovation catalysing, technology providing. Further, we discuss the motives of these firms to offer their patents as 'open source'. We find that firms may obtain valuable technological input for subsequent innovations as well as social benefits in return for their free patent release. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Ämnesord
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Annan naturvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Other Natural Sciences (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Cost cutting
- Patents
- Innovation catalysing
- Technology providing
- Patent pools
- Profit making
- Open innovation
- Patent donation
- Patent release
- Intellectual property (IP)
- Open source
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- art (ämneskategori)
- ref (ämneskategori)
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