TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Saksupapchon, Punyapat
A1  - Willoughby, Kelvin
T1  - Contextual factors affecting patent licensing provisions in collaboration agreements of complex technological organisations
JF  - International journal of intellectual property management : IJIPM
N2  - This paper addresses one of the challenges of open innovation, namely, the issue of the right to access and exploit technological innovations owned by collaborative partners inside and outside the boundary of research collaboration. Licensing is widely viewed as a solution to this problem. To design appropriate intellectual property licensing provisions in collaboration agreements with partners in complex research projects, project managers need to configure a set of critical intellectual property licensing elements based on consideration of a strategic set of contextual factors. This study is focused primarily on the licensing of patent rights in company-led research collaborations in complex technological industries. Drawing upon literature analysis and practical professional knowledge, we propose a heuristic framework to guide practitioners in deciding whether or not to grant technology licences to collaborators, whether or not to acquire collaborators' technology licences, and also what the scope of the licences should be.
KW  - Open innovation
KW  - Intellectual property
KW  - Licensing
KW  - Collaboration agreements
KW  - Joint product development
KW  - Patents
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 1478-9647
SS  - 1478-9647
U6  - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIPM.2020.10032645
DO  - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIPM.2020.10032645
VL  - 11
IS  - 3
SP  - 280
EP  - 315
ER  -