The rising popularity of open innovation the last decade has been impossible to overlook. As each firm matures with time, it forces them to search for new business opportunities in order to grow and to stay competitive on the market. It is no longer an option to only extend products’ life cycles – firms now also have to explore new technological areas and invest in new business opportunities to stay in business.
There are many advantages with open innovation that companies would not have been able to benefit from with a closed innovation business model. First, innovating firms can be broadly involved in externally developed projects by purchasing minor stakes in start-up projects. By early involvement in new technologies and business opportunities,
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However, companies are able to minimize waste and benefit from the opportunity of early exit with open innovation. When the value of the project is no longer moving forward within the business and cannot be used internally, open innovation allows companies the possibility of licensing or potentially selling projects or technologies to external parties. Another supplier or third party might find a project promising, valuable or more aligned to their core competence than the initial firm did. What would have been waste in a closed innovation model has now turned into a potential building block to success with open innovation.
Yet, open innovation has its disadvantages as well. Standardization and therefore a more effective distribution channel can be achieved with the closed innovation model and its “one-size fits all” mentality and when there are less external participants involved in the R&D processes. Not to mention that it can be extremely costly adapting an open innovation model in order to look for and find external solutions that will benefit the internal activities and
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With closed innovation, the question of what is mine and what is yours is never a subject of discussion. Large enterprises make vast investments in R&D activities, finding and employing the smartest people with the best brains to keep their business running smoothly and keeping their competitors at bay. By protecting their intellectual property, they can maximize profits, keeping and protecting the best ideas, transforming ideas to actual products or services in order to give them the upper hand on the
Though Intellectual Property laws are generally territorial in character, protection of trade secrets varies with changing jurisdictions. The policy behind trade secret protection is to encourage research and development by providing protection to the originator of business information, and maintain proper standards of business ethics. Trade secrets act as incentive to innovation. They serve a pivotal role in protecting such innovations and also establish rights pertinent to the use of new technology.
More new products need to be introduced and research needs to be done to find out which products will be most popular and profitable.
Innovation and disruption have become buzzwords in the past decade. With the advent of smaller and faster technological components, start-ups and established companies alike have promised to improve (even revolutionize) our lives with wearables, appliances, apps, and the Internet of Things. Unlike maintenance and repair, innovation and disruption are perceived as interesting, exciting, and “sexy.”
1. There are several advantages to proprietary products over open source products: better quality control issues in creating products; a firmer control over the licensing, either the technology the product is based on or what material (music in this case) can be used with the proprietary device; the potential to build brand loyalty (for example Sony memory cards only work in their products, if you’ve already bought these cards you could be more likely to purchase additional Sony products in the future); pricing – companies could possibly charge a premium price for their proprietary products as there could be few to no competitors in a specific market space; vertical markets (if Sony is providing the device, memory card and music the majority of revenues are staying in-house); and proprietary products could potentially create barriers to entry.
“Protecting your intellectual property is crucial to your business.” (Hinson, 2014) When business have intellectual property that is going to be popular or helpful in advancing there business, they have to take measures to ensure that the ideas or prototypes are protected from other that may steal the intellectual property. In the United States, many laws or safeguard steps have to be followed in order to preserve the intellectual property. A business owner has the right to protect the intellectual property, because the failure to do so could result in demise of the business itself.
A decision on whether or not an open innovation strategy is implement effects several stakeholders. First of all, it effects the stakeholders who are shareholders. Shareholders could be missing out on increased profits because the culture and organization of the company has become stubborn.
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There is this issues when it comes to IPR, this illusion that there are only two sides of a fence to stand on regarding how beneficial or detrimental IPR is in today’s society. Some people decide that IPR protects people from having their ideas stolen, promotes a healthy flow of inventions and discoveries for monetary gain, and in turn produce a flourishing, healthy economy. Other people feel that IPR advocates monopolies, encourages lawsuits, hurts “the little guy”, and ultimately crushes creativity, leaving little left to gain unless you are already a large and successful company.
Intellectual property protection has become increasingly popular in the last century. Many factors have probed interest in this area of the law. A few of those factors include musicians seeking protection of their musical talents through use of copyrights, companies seek to protect inventions of advanced production capabilities, companies create trademarks that differentiate their unique goods from competitors, and companies like Coca-Cola protect their undisclosed ingredients for their products through use of trade secrets. These examples are to gain an understanding of how and why intellectual property rights help companies seek advantages in the marketplace. Furthermore, as the world shrinks because of advancements in transportation and computer technology, intellectual property rights become a large part of entrepreneurship and product development. This paper will discuss the interesting and challenging topic of intellectual property protection. The four basic types of intellectual property include copyrights, patents, trademarks and trade secrets; we will discuss the intellectual properties in the order in which they are listed.
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...ividuals and systems should be developed to encourage innovation in a flexible way with few legal restrictions. Government and investors should work towards improving the infrastructure of the nation by providing facilities and platforms making it simple for any individual to innovate.
CoP builds sustainable capacity to innovate through collaboration with the knowledge base in those companies which do not already have the ability to engage in successful open innovation.
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