Intellectual Property Strategy Changes of Emerging Technology Companies: An Empirical Study of Synthetic Biology Companies
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description: Intellectual Property (IP) strategy is considered to have a growing importance for technological companies. There has been an increasing interest in IP management and strategy from both academia and industry. Most studies have focused on how IP and innovation are protected, and the motives behind the protection of IP. The empirical studies in this field often appear to consider IP strategy as static, and hence have led to a notable lack of attention to its dynamic aspect. Since technologies and industries around the world are developing at an unprecedentedly fast pace, companies’ IP strategy decisions should be more dynamic than ever. Therefore, the dynamic aspect of IP strategy, especially its changes and evolution, should be further explored. Emerging technologies are often associated with characteristics such as newness, rapid growth and uncertainty, which indicate that companies that work with these technologies are in a very dynamic and constantly changing environment. Even though considerable research has explored strategic change in companies, including those with emerging technologies, very few researchers have paid attention to the IP strategy changes of these companies. This research set out to improve the understanding of IP strategy and emerging technology by analysing the IP strategy of emerging technology companies from a dynamic perspective. In order to achieve this goal, this study explored the types, antecedents, impacts and the overall evolution of IP strategy changes made by emerging technology companies. The research set out to achieve its objectives through two approaches: the single-transition analysis of three key transitions based on an industry emergence model and the cross-transition analysis with the assistance of the IP strategy change framework. The single-transition analysis of the types of IP strategy changes resulted in a framework with four dimensions: the change of volume, the change of territory, the change of openness and the chan…
abstract: Intellectual Property (IP) strategy is considered to have a growing importance for technological companies. There has been an increasing interest in IP management and strategy from both academia and industry. Most studies have focused on how IP and innovation are protected, and the motives behind the protection of IP. The empirical studies in this field often appear to consider IP strategy as static, and hence have led to a notable lack of attention to its dynamic aspect. Since technologies and industries around the world are developing at an unprecedentedly fast pace, companies’ IP strategy decisions should be more dynamic than ever. Therefore, the dynamic aspect of IP strategy, especially its changes and evolution, should be further explored. Emerging technologies are often associated with characteristics such as newness, rapid growth and uncertainty, which indicate that companies that work with these technologies are in a very dynamic and constantly changing environment. Even though considerable research has explored strategic change in companies, including those with emerging technologies, very few researchers have paid attention to the IP strategy changes of these companies. This research set out to improve the understanding of IP strategy and emerging technology by analysing the IP strategy of emerging technology companies from a dynamic perspective. In order to achieve this goal, this study explored the types, antecedents, impacts and the overall evolution of IP strategy changes made by emerging technology companies. The research set out to achieve its objectives through two approaches: the single-transition analysis of three key transitions based on an industry emergence model and the cross-transition analysis with the assistance of the IP strategy change framework. The single-transition analysis of the types of IP strategy changes resulted in a framework with four dimensions: the change of volume, the change of territory, the change of openness and the chan…
author: Tang, Aocheng
language: eng
keywords: Emerging Technology, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Strategy, Strategy Change, Synthetic Biology
license: https://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved/
date published: 2022-06-02
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:24:14Z
provider: Cambridge University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Cambridge

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value: 10.17863/CAM.94123