TY - GEN
T1 - The problem of distributed intellectual property bundles
AU - Aggarwal, Nitin
AU - Walden, Eric A.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Technology is made up of bundles of ideas. Increasingly, these ideas are protected by intellectual property rights. Unfortunately, these intellectual property rights are often distributed across many different owners. Moreover, the technology itself is also used by many different legal entities. Thus, a burgeoning problem faced by creators of technology is how to coordinate the disseperate interests of various intellectual property owners in order to create useful technology. In this paper we apply transaction costs economics to explain the relative merits of different organization forms vis - vis the creation of technology that is made up of intellectual property.
AB - Technology is made up of bundles of ideas. Increasingly, these ideas are protected by intellectual property rights. Unfortunately, these intellectual property rights are often distributed across many different owners. Moreover, the technology itself is also used by many different legal entities. Thus, a burgeoning problem faced by creators of technology is how to coordinate the disseperate interests of various intellectual property owners in order to create useful technology. In this paper we apply transaction costs economics to explain the relative merits of different organization forms vis - vis the creation of technology that is made up of intellectual property.
KW - Bundles
KW - Coordination
KW - Intellectual property rights
KW - Transaction cost economics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=36849080298&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1282100.1282142
DO - 10.1145/1282100.1282142
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:36849080298
SN - 1595937005
SN - 9781595937001
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 215
EP - 224
BT - ICEC 2007
Y2 - 19 August 2007 through 22 August 2007
ER -