2013

Jan Wallanders and Tom Hedelius foundation and Tore Browaldh’s foundation have awarded Marcus Holgersson with the Wallander scholarship financing three years of full-time research related to the economics and management of intellectual property. Holgersson aims to study how IP can be used to govern complex and interorganizational innovation processes, and the new quasi-integrated organizational forms enabled by IP governance.

– It feels great and encouraging. The Wallander scholarship offers a unique opportunity to continue and further develop my research within the field of IP management and economics.

Two recent theses by Marcus Holgersson on the management and economics of intellectual property in the context of technological innovations are now uploaded. They are available here (use Download PDF in the menu at the left):

Holgersson (2012) [intlink id=”450″ type=”post”]Innovation and Intellectual Property: Strategic IP Management and Economics of Technology[/intlink]

Holgersson (2011) [intlink id=”302″ type=”post”]Intellectual Property Strategies and Innovation – Causes and Consequences for Firms and Nations[/intlink]

The Swedish entrepreneurship magazine Entré recently wrote an article about the PhD thesis of Marcus Holgersson, one of our researchers. The article is available here. The abstract of the PhD thesis is available here.

Marcus Holgersson has received the Broman Scholarship for entrepreneurship research. The scholarship will finance part-time research during 2013 to be conducted at the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the School of Business, Economics and Law (University of Gothenburg). The research will focus on output markets for patents, technological specialization, and market and technology diversification on national and company levels.

The paper ‘Multinational technology and intellectual property management – Is there global convergence and/or specialisation?’, written by Ove Granstrand and Marcus Holgersson and forthcoming in International Journal of Technology Management, is now available for download here. With a novel set of quantitative measures, the paper gives various indications of market and technology diversification as well as of global market and technology convergence (rather than specialisation) in the context of managerial, legal and economic convergence. The results show that different countries focus on a wider but increasingly similar set of markets for R&D outputs in form of patents, which implies increasing intra-national market diversification and inter-national market convergence. The results also show that different countries focus on a wider but increasingly similar set of technologies that are patented, which implies increasing intra-national technology diversification and inter-national technology convergence. In addition, intellectual property (IP) legal convergence takes place as newly industrialised countries (NICs) have strengthened their IP regimes in compliance with TRIPS and subsequently do so in the context of their indigenous innovation policies. Asian NICs have significantly increased their international patenting and supply of patented inventions. Altogether, this puts new demands across countries on multinational technology and innovation management skills, and in particular multinational IP management skills.