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- July 2014
- Case
Paramount Equipment, Inc.
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Wei Wang
Paramount Equipment, Inc., based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is a large manufacturer of cranes and compact construction equipment, aerial work platforms, and food service equipment. Founded in 1987, Paramount now had manufacturing operations in 24 countries. However, it... View Details
- July 2014
- Supplement
Paramount Equipment, Inc., Spreadsheet for Instructors (Brief Case)
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Wei Wang
- July 2014
- Supplement
Paramount Equipment, Inc., Spreadsheet for Students (Brief Case)
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Wei Wang
- 27 Jan 2014 - 28 Jan 2014
- Conference Presentation
Deciding What to Leave Out: Pragmatic Philosophy in Design Theory
- 2014
- Working Paper
Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Joachim Henkel
Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact... View Details
- 5 Nov 2013
- Conference Presentation
The Principles Behind Open Source Business Models
- 2014
- Working Paper
Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for Developing Infrastructure
By: Nuno Gil and Carliss Y. Baldwin
This study empirically investigates the relationship between design structure and organization structure in the context of new infrastructure development projects. Our research setting is a capital program to develop new school buildings in the city of Manchester, UK.... View Details
- 10 Aug 2013
- Panel Discussion
Architectural Strategy and Design Evolution in Business Ecosystems: Discussion
- 4 Jul 2013
- Lecture
Mirroring and Anti-Mirroring: Creating a Design Commons
- Summer 2013
- Article
IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property
By: Joachim Henkel, Carliss Y. Baldwin and Willy C. Shih
Firms seeking to take advantage of distributed innovation and outsourcing can bridge the tension between value creation and value capture by modifying the modular structure of their technical systems. Specifically, this article introduces the concept of "IP... View Details
- June 2013
- Case
The World Economic Forum's Global Leadership Fellows Program
By: Rakesh Khurana and Eric Baldwin
This case examines a distinctive leadership development program within the World Economic Forum. The program, born out of the conviction that the complexity of global challenges at the beginning of the 21st century required a new generation of global leaders, recruited... View Details
- 22 Jun 2013 - 23 Jun 2013
- Conference Presentation
Positive Risk and the Innovation Commons
- 19 Jun 2013
- Conference Presentation
Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map System Architecture
- 17 Jun 2013 - 18 Jun 2013
- Conference Presentation
Design as a Commons: Lessons from Teacher's Participation in the Design of New Schools
- 2014
- Working Paper
Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map System Architecture
By: Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack and John Rusnak
In this paper, we describe an operational methodology for characterising the architecture of complex technical systems and demonstrate its application to a large sample of software releases. Our methodology is based upon directed network graphs, which allows us to... View Details