<scp>Competing on Standards? Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property, and Platform Technologies</scp>

Simcoe, Timothy; Graham, Stuart; Feldman, Maryann P.

doi:10.1111/j.1530-9134.2009.00229.x

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“…Results indicated that declared patents receive a higher number of forward citations supporting the evidence of part of the previous literature (e.g. Simcoe et al, ; Bekkers et al, ). In all model specifications, IRR indicates that declared patents receive a number of forward citations between 204% and 289% of non‐declared ones.…”

Section: Empirical Analysis Of Patent Declarationssupporting

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Patenting strategies and characteristics of declared inventions in the long term evolution standard

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This study provides an empirical analysis of patent declarations at the European Telecommunications Standards Institute concerning the core releases of the Long Term Evolution standard for mobile communications. The analysis of the declared Standard Essential Patents suggests that the distribution of essential inventions across firms is less concentrated than in previous mobile standard generations [Global System for Mobile communications and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System in 1991 and, mainly due to the entry of new global players. We investigated the characteristics of the declared patents and their value as proxied by the number of citations received before and after the declaration. We distinguish between entrant and incumbent firms. The declared patents receive on average more citations than a control sample of nondeclared. However, such citation premium is higher for incumbent firms than entrants. Overall evidence suggests that new global players in the field are more likely to declare patents with a narrower technological scope and that have a relatively lower technological merit as captured by citations.

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Section: Empirical Analysis Of Patent Declarationssupporting

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Patenting strategies and characteristics of declared inventions in the long term evolution standard

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“…Entrepreneurs with an academic background are more likely to publish their intellectual capital in the form of a publication, whereas entrepreneurs with a business background are more likely to patent their intellectual capital. Simcoe, Graham, and Feldman (2009) investigate the IP strategies of firms that participate in standard setting organizations. Their results show that small entrepreneurs litigate their IP more than large incumbents after it has been incorporated into a standard.…”

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The Schumpeterian entrepreneur: a review of the empirical evidence on the antecedents, behaviour and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship

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Praag

2016

Industry and Innovation

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Innovative entrepreneurship is considered an important pillar for economic development and has sparked a lively discussion in academia and practice alike. Oftentimes, however, the debate is not sufficiently grounded on solid empirical evidence. The academic literature is growing but very scattered and is separated into several disciplines. We provide a summary that takes stock of the academic knowledge about innovative entrepreneurship and summarizes the evidence from 102 empirical studies published in the primary economics and management journals on the antecedents, behavior, and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship. Based on this state-of-the-art literature review, directions for future research are discussed.

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“…Conversely, Teece and Sherry (2003) suggest that SSOs could choose inefficient technology standards because adopters seek to avoid licensing royalties, SSO rules favour adopters over inventors, and engineers making decisions are biased against technologies protected by intellectual property (IP). Simcoe et al (2009) observe that smaller firms that own IP face a trade-off between opening a standard to encourage technology adoption and closing a standard to create monopoly rents, whereas larger firms with market power downstream favour greater competition upstream in technology markets. Issues involving SEPs and SSOs are central to many prominent legal cases.…”

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Standard Setting Organisations and Standard Essential Patents: Voting and Markets

Spulber¹

2018

The Economic Journal

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The analysis provides conditions under which standard setting organisations (SSOs) choose efficient technology standards. I introduce a two-stage game with both voting and market competition. In equilibrium, standards and market outcomes are efficient even with market power from scarce capacity and standard essential patents (SEPs). I show that a drastic innovation with SEPs generates greater social welfare than a less efficient standard without SEPs. A key finding is that voting power and market power have counterbalancing effects. The discussion helps explain empirical observation of differences in SSO voting rules, intellectual property (IP) rules, membership and alliances.How do standard setting organisations (SSOs) affect economic efficiency? Answering this question requires understanding interactions between voting in SSOs and market competition. I introduce a two-stage model in which inventors and adopters in an SSO vote on standards in the first stage and then compete in the market in the second stage. I obtain conditions under which SSOs choose efficient technology standards and the resulting market outcomes are efficient. I find that voting power and market power have countervailing effects. Standards and market outcomes are efficient because market prices harmonise relative benefits even if the relative benefits of standards for individual adopters differ both within and across industry groups. Also, when standards represent significant innovations, the social benefits of efficient standards outweigh the economic effects of standard essential patents (SEPs).

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Competing on Standards? Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property, and Platform Technologies

Abstract: Entrepreneurs often rely on intellectual property (IP) to earn a return on their

Cited by 108 publications

References 45 publications

Patenting strategies and characteristics of declared inventions in the long term evolution standard

Patenting strategies and characteristics of declared inventions in the long term evolution standard

The Schumpeterian entrepreneur: a review of the empirical evidence on the antecedents, behaviour and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship

Standard Setting Organisations and Standard Essential Patents: Voting and Markets

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