Patenting motives, technology strategies, and open innovation
Summary. Swedish firms with higher levels of open innovation place greater importance on patenting, particularly for protecting product technologies and freedom to operate, and for bargaining purposes. The study surveyed large firms and SMEs, finding that open innovation strengthens most patenting motives compared to closed innovation strategies, except for attracting customers.
Cite this article
Holgersson, M., & Granstrand, O.. (2017). Patenting motives, technology strategies, and open innovation. Management Decision. https://doi.org/10.1108/md-04-2016-0233
Holgersson, Marcus, and Ove Granstrand. “Patenting motives, technology strategies, and open innovation.” Management Decision, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1108/md-04-2016-0233.
Holgersson, Marcus, and Ove Granstrand. 2017. “Patenting motives, technology strategies, and open innovation.” Management Decision. https://doi.org/10.1108/md-04-2016-0233.
@article{holgersson-2017-patenting-motives-technology-strategies-open,
title = {Patenting motives, technology strategies, and open innovation},
author = {Marcus Holgersson and Ove Granstrand},
journal = {Management Decision},
year = {2017},
doi = {10.1108/md-04-2016-0233},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1108/md-04-2016-0233}
}
TY - JOUR TI - Patenting motives, technology strategies, and open innovation AU - Marcus Holgersson AU - Ove Granstrand JO - Management Decision PY - 2017 DO - 10.1108/md-04-2016-0233 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/md-04-2016-0233 ER -
Details
- DOI
- 10.1108/md-04-2016-0233
- Countries
- Sweden
- Regions
- Europe
- Categories
- innovation-theory, innovation-networks, general-innovation
- Added
- 2026-04-28