Intellectual property protection need as a driver for open innovation: Empirical evidence from Vietnam

Open innovation and confidentiality agreements as key factors of innovative performance in the manufacturing and service industries

“…Protecting intellectual property is essential for companies to maintain their competitive advantage and their ability to innovate in the future, especially since OI develops an ambiguous and complex scenario in social terms; consequently, it becomes a generator of imitation barriers for competitors and a driver for the protection of "informal" intellectual property. This informal approach is especially attractive to companies in developing economies, where formal institutional protection of the intellectual property is weak [ 11 ].…”

“…In this sense, the firms implement legal figures such as confidentiality contracts that solve the demanding challenges that firms face when there are several actors involved in the development of innovation [ 12 ]. Talking about them means establishing a relationship of trust between the company and its external partners, allowing them to share sensitive information without fear of it being disclosed to third parties without consent, this being a solid driver for OI [ 11 , 12 ]; in the understanding that trust improves the exchange and acquisition of resources while reducing conflicts [ 13 , 14 ].…”

“…However, open innovation can create challenges around confidentiality and intellectual property, as companies must share their knowledge and expertise with external partners. Discussion is current, for example some authors study some way different relation, and argue that there exists a need of protecting intellectual property and this is a boost of open innovation [ 11 ].…”

Comprehensive intellectual property ability and firm productivity: A quasi-natural experiment based on national intellectual property demonstration advantage firm policy in China

“…The NIPDAF policy can promote firm productivity through stimulating innovation mechanism. Intellectual property plays a significant role in promoting innovation [ 6 , 10 ]. The NIPDAF policy prioritizes supporting firm to undertake government science and technology project and encourages firm to increase R&D investment.…”

Unlocking agility: Trapped in the antagonism between co-innovation in digital platforms, business analytics capability and external pressure for AI adoption?

“…Competitive advantage refers to a superior level of value creation or customer satisfaction relative to competitors (Peteraf, 1993). From this theoretical perspective, CO enables the creation of competitive advantages in two ways: (1) by obtaining key resources from external sources, such as data and knowledge (Bresciani et al ., 2021); and (2) by combining external and internal resources in unique ways through collaboration with external Allies (Nguyen et al ., 2023), which makes the company's response to environment demands inimitable and non-substitutable (Ashrafi et al ., 2019; Martín-Peña et al ., 2023).…”