Licensing Strategy of Japanese Firms and Competitive Advantage

This study defines inventions traditionally regarded as mere fruits of R&D as “internal inventions,” and inventions resulting from other factors collectively as “non-internal inventions.” The objective is to show that firms make inventions not only on technological factors. Also, a rough analysi...

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Main Authors:	Naoko KISHI, Nobuo TAKAHASHI
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Global Business Research Center 2010-12-01
Series:	Annals of Business Administrative Science
Subjects:	patent licensing strategy case study
Online Access:	https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/abas/9/0/9_1/_pdf/-char/en

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spelling	doaj-2e3536c7809c4c1eb353d6f31cb7c80b2021-03-21T09:11:59ZengGlobal Business Research CenterAnnals of Business Administrative Science1347-44641347-44562010-12-019011210.7880/abas.9.1abasLicensing Strategy of Japanese Firms and Competitive AdvantageNaoko KISHI0Nobuo TAKAHASHI1School of Economics, Meiji Gakuin UniversityGraduate School of Economics, the University of TokyoThis study defines inventions traditionally regarded as mere fruits of R&D as “internal inventions,” and inventions resulting from other factors collectively as “non-internal inventions.” The objective is to show that firms make inventions not only on technological factors. Also, a rough analysis method is proposed to identify how many non-internal inventions are filed for patents, and the case study clarifies the promoting factors. This study aims to demonstrate that the perspective of licensing business, completely distinct from science and technology, is also an adequate explanation of firms’ behavior in relation to inventions and patent filing.https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/abas/9/0/9_1/_pdf/-char/enpatentlicensing strategycase study
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title	Licensing Strategy of Japanese Firms and Competitive Advantage
title_short	Licensing Strategy of Japanese Firms and Competitive Advantage
title_full	Licensing Strategy of Japanese Firms and Competitive Advantage
title_fullStr	Licensing Strategy of Japanese Firms and Competitive Advantage
title_full_unstemmed	Licensing Strategy of Japanese Firms and Competitive Advantage
title_sort	licensing strategy of japanese firms and competitive advantage
publisher	Global Business Research Center
series	Annals of Business Administrative Science
issn	1347-4464 1347-4456
publishDate	2010-12-01
description	This study defines inventions traditionally regarded as mere fruits of R&D as “internal inventions,” and inventions resulting from other factors collectively as “non-internal inventions.” The objective is to show that firms make inventions not only on technological factors. Also, a rough analysis method is proposed to identify how many non-internal inventions are filed for patents, and the case study clarifies the promoting factors. This study aims to demonstrate that the perspective of licensing business, completely distinct from science and technology, is also an adequate explanation of firms’ behavior in relation to inventions and patent filing.
topic	patent licensing strategy case study
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Licensing Strategy of Japanese Firms and Competitive Advantage

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