Innovation policy within private collectives: Evidence on 3GPP's regulation mechanisms to facilitate collective innovation

Lopez-Berzosa, D and Gawer, Annabelle (2014) Innovation policy within private collectives: Evidence on 3GPP's regulation mechanisms to facilitate collective innovation Technovation, 34 (12). pp. 734-745.

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Abstract

This article provides insights on how to manage collective innovation in the digital economy, an innovation regime which is riddled with complex regulatory challenges and increasing litigation over intellectual property rights. Private collective organizations face two main challenges: (1) to promote collective innovation while preserving the private interests of the firms within the collective, and (2) to ensure that collective innovation does not weaken healthy competition. Through a case study of the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), an exemplary private collective federation of organizations composed of standardization bodies, industry consortia and technology producers, we identify organizational solutions to these challenges. We find that a combination of specific IP rights instruments is key to manage these trade-offs. We also find that the combined policies of essential patenting, FRAND, and maximum royalty rate help overcome the specific challenges associated with collective innovation within competitive contexts. Finally we discuss the implications of our findings for managers and for policy. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions :	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Surrey Business School
Authors :	Name Email ORCID Lopez-Berzosa, D Gawer, Annabelle a.gawer@surrey.ac.uk
Date :	December 2014
DOI :	10.1016/j.technovation.2014.07.005
Depositing User :	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited :	15 Jul 2016 09:28
Last Modified :	16 Jan 2019 17:03
URI:	http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/810694

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