Intellectual property management, dynamic capabilities and competitive innovation in the commercial aircraft industry
- In this paper we combine insights from two streams of literature within the broad academic domain of strategic management - namely intellectual property management and dynamic capabilities - to advance our understanding of the dynamics of competition and innovation in technology-intensive industries dominated by large companies with highly complex products and businesses, large operational scale, and broad international reach. We argue that a firm's IP management capability ought to be viewed as a dynamic capability, as propounded by Teece et al. (1997) and Teece (2007), and we accordingly propose a generic competition-influenced evolutionary pattern of patent application strategies, embodying three development phases: 1) passive strategy, during the early phase; 2) aggressive strategy, during the growth phase; 3) sophisticated strategy at the maturity phase. We test our ideas through a study of the patenting behaviour of two major competing firms in the commercial aircraft industry.
Document Type: | Article |
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Language: | English |
Author: | Punyapat SaksupapchonORCiD, Kelvin WilloughbyORCiD |
Chairs and Professorships: | Chair of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIPM.2021.117176 |
Parent Title (English): | International journal of intellectual property management : IJIPM |
ISSN: | 1478-9647 |
Volume: | 11 |
Issue: | 3 |
Year of Completion: | 2021 |
First Page: | 236 |
Last Page: | 262 |
Tag: | Airbus; Boeing; Commercial aircraft industry; Dynamic capabilities; IP management; Intellectual property; Patent application strategies; Technological innovation |
Content Focus: | Academic Audience |
Rankings: | SJR Ranking / Q4 |
Licence (German): | ![]() |