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(2013), "2012 Awards for Excellence", Journal of Knowledge-based Innovation in China, Vol. 5 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/jkic.2013.40405aaa.001
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2013, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2012 Awards for Excellence
Article Type: 2012 Awards for Excellence From: Journal of Knowledge-based Innovation in China, Volume 5, Issue 1
The following article was selected for this year's Outstanding Paper Award for Journal of Knowledge-based Innovation in China
“Patent transactions with China in a new era: a European perspective”
Ying LiDTU Executive School of Business, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Elise Meijer and Geert DuystersSchool of Industrial Engineering, Innovation, Technology Entrepreneurship and Marketing Group, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Maurice de RochemontDuke Forest Capital, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Purpose – This study aims to present a timely description of the experience and intentions of EU firms regarding patent licensing and/or selling to China in a new era, where EU firms are taking a more open approach toward innovation and the Chinese institutional environment has been recently changed.
Design/methodology/approach – The timing of this study provides opportunities to observe up-to-date perceptions of EU firms regarding their intentions and concerns about patent transactions to China right after the new Chinese Patent Law took effect in 2009. Firms from 12 European countries in various industries were surveyed through an online questionnaire.
Findings – The paper finds that large and small EU firms are different regarding the openness of innovation measured by patent transactions; for those EU firms that are not interested in licensing or selling patents, most of them are not employing an open innovation model and IP infringement is still the primary concern. EU firms are most interested in selling obsolete technologies and licensing state-of-art technologies to China.
Research limitations/implications – Owing to the small sample size, it is difficult to identify the differences in strategies and concerns across industries in the EU and to observe and statistically present the relationships between variables.
Practical implications – This study renders practical guidance for both EU and Chinese firms that are already engaged in or will be interested in patent trade in the future.
Originality/value – The timing of the research and the uniqueness of data ensure the originality of this paper, which contributes to the open innovation literature by addressing several important issues in international technology transfer to China.
Keywords China, IP protection, Licensing, Open innovation, Patents, Technology transfer
www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/17561411111138973
This article originally appeared in Volume 3 Number 2, 2011, pp. 136-56 Nankai Business Review International
The following article was selected for this year's Highly Commended Award
“User acceptance of information technology innovations in the remote areas of China”
John Qi Dong
This article originally appeared in Volume 3 Number 1, 2011, Journal of Knowledge-based Innovation in China
“Innovation in China: a patentometric perspective (1985-2009)”
Chunjuan Luan and Tienan Zhang
This article originally appeared in Volume 3 Number 3, 2011, Journal of Knowledge-based Innovation in China
“University-industry collaboration in Japan by technology fields”
Masayuki Kondo
This article originally appeared in Volume 3 Number 1, 2011, Journal of Knowledge-based Innovation in China
Outstanding Reviewers
Professor Loet LeydesdorffAmsterdam University, The Netherlands
Dr Lee ZhuangStaffordshire University, UK