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Infringement of intellectual property in innovation partnerships
Author(s) -
Schubert Torben
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
randd management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.253
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1467-9310
pISSN - 0033-6807
DOI - 10.1111/radm.12128
Subject(s) - intellectual property , business , patent infringement , sample (material) , copyright infringement , law and economics , industrial organization , economics , law , political science , chemistry , chromatography
Using data from the G erman C ommunity I nnovation S urvey ( CIS ) from 2008, we analyze whether innovation partnering increases the risk of experiencing infringement of intellectual property ( IP ). The results show that depending on types of IP innovation, partnerships increase the risk of infringement by up to 37% compared with the average risk in the sample. The results suggest that this massive increase can be reduced by IP rights and contracts to govern the partnerships. Yet, we show that formal protection mechanisms do not eliminate the sources of opportunistic infringement, because that infringement in innovation partnerships more commonly relates to the infringement of formally unprotected IP , such as tacit knowledge and know‐how.