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Case

Edwin Land: The Art and Science of Innovation

By: Tom Nicholas, Christopher T. Stanton and Matthew G. Preble

Throughout the second half of the 20th century, Polaroid first invented—and then continuously reinvented—the field of instant photography. Under the leadership of its mercurial founder Edwin Land, the company regularly released new instant cameras and films, often... View Details

Keywords: Instant Photography; Company History; Change Management; Disruption; Forecasting and Prediction; Entrepreneurship; Business History; Innovation Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Intellectual Property; Patents; Product Marketing; Brands and Branding; Product Launch; Product Development; Chemical Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States

Educators

29 Apr 2008
Research Event

Venture Capital

capital firms strategize and differentiate. Global strategy—a new form of herd behavior? How to scale up the partnership to the global operations level. Protecting venture capital operations from legal shortcomings and corruption. What... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

2019
Working Paper

Infringing Use as a Path to Legal Consumption: Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Hong Luo and Julie Holland Mortimer

Digitization has transformed how users find and use copyrighted goods, but many existing legal options remain difficult to access, possibly leading to infringement. In a field experiment, we contact firms that are caught infringing on expensive digital images. Emails... View Details

Keywords: Copyright Infringement; Field Experiment; Intellectual Property; Lawfulness

SSRN

2006
Other Unpublished Work

The RAD-Patent-LRD Mapping Project

By: William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu

Keywords: Patents

24 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 24

opportunity to enter the market via new automotive market entrants in China that had comparatively fewer capabilities and were willing to purchase major subsystems. Yet the company faced a dilemma—a major customer wanted Delta to transfer ownership of key View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

summer 1994
Article

The Importance of Patent Scope: An Empirical Analysis

By: J. Lerner

Keywords: Patents

29 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

statistics showcasing the combined cost of white collar crime. Accounting scandals: $40 billion per year. Insurance fraud: $80 billion. "Wardrobing" (purchasing a new outfit, wearing it for a night on the town, and then returning it): $8.9 billion. View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

disrupt existing processes and services for the exploration and production of oil and natural gas. These breakthrough laser technologies were protected by a strong intellectual View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 2011
Supplement

InnoCentive.com (B)

By: Karim R. Lakhani and Eric Lonstein

InnoCentive.com enables clients to tap into internal and external solver networks to address various business issues. In 2008, InnoCentive introduced "InnoCentive@Work" (lC@W), which recognized clients' reluctance to share problems and solutions with an external... View Details

Keywords: Digital Platforms; Cost vs Benefits; Intellectual Property; Networks; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Product; Groups and Teams; Communication Technology

June 2010
Teaching Note

Radiant Cosmetics: What's in a Pout? (TN)

By: Robert C. Pozen and Mary Ellen Webster Hammond

Teaching Note for 310003. View Details

Keywords: Product Launch; Decisions; Brands and Branding; Distribution; Globalized Markets and Industries; Intellectual Property; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Fashion Industry; France

05 Jul 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Buying the Verdict

Keywords: by Lauren H. Cohen and Umit G. Gurun

Comment

Patent Citations and the Geography of Knowledge Spillovers: A Reassessment: Comment

By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Adam Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg

Keywords: Patents; Knowledge; Information

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14 Jun 2016
First Look

June 14, 2016

entity (PE) intellectual property (IP) litigation, nor of non-IP litigation against publicly traded firms. The empirical evidence suggests, however, that not all NPEs exhibit trolling behavior—the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2011
Case

MorphoSys AG: The Evolution of a Biotechnology Business Model

By: Gary P. Pisano, Ryan Johnson and Carin-Isabel Knoop

In the biotech world, the 18-year-old Munich-based company MorphoSys was a rarity: it was profitable. The company achieved this profitability not by developing and selling its own drugs, but by licensing access to its proprietary library of human antibodies. Recently,... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Profit; Intellectual Property; Rights; Risk Management; Digital Platforms; Product Development; Business and Shareholder Relations; Vertical Integration; Biotechnology Industry; Munich

Educators

Article

Novelty and Disclosure in Patent Law

By: Suzanne Scotchmer and Jerry R. Green

The stringency of the novelty requirement in patent law affects the pace of innovation because it affects the amount of technical information that is disclosed among firms. It also affects ex ante profitability of research. We compare weak and strong novelty... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Law