IP modularity: Profiting from innovation by aligning product architecture with intellectual property

California Management Review

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 65-82

  Henkel, Joachim ^a   Baldwin, Carliss Y ^b   Shih, Willy ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed innovation; Intellectual property; Modularity; Open innovation; Value appropriation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894593652     PISSN: 00081256     EISSN: 21628564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cmr.2013.55.4.65     Document Type: Article

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