“To own or not to own?” A study on the determinants and consequences of alternative intellectual property rights arrangements in crowdsourcing for innovation contests

Name: “To own or not to own?” A study on the determinants and consequences of alternative intellectual property rights arrangements in crowdsourcing for innovation contests
Author: Mazzola, E., Acur, Nuran, Piazza, M., Perrone, G.

İsim	“To own or not to own?” A study on the determinants and consequences of alternative intellectual property rights arrangements in crowdsourcing for innovation contests
Yazar	Mazzola, E., Acur, Nuran, Piazza, M., Perrone, G.
Basım Tarihi:	2018-11
Basım Yeri	- Wiley
Tür	Süreli Yayın
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası	0737-6782
Kayıt Numarası	4902369d-09c6-4f59-b408-c2adb9a8df2f
Lokasyon	Business Administration
Tarih	2018-11
Notlar	Aalborg Universitet\|\|Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council\|\|Bilkent Üniversitesi\|\|University of Strathclyde\|\|University of Glasgow\|\|Economic and Social Research Council\|\|Università degli Studi di Palermo
Örnek Metin	Firms are increasingly engaging in crowdsourcing for innovation to access new knowledge beyond their boundaries; however, scholars are no closer to understanding what guides seeker firms in deciding the level at which to acquire rights from solvers and the effect that this decision has on the performance of crowdsourcing contests. Integrating property rights theory and the problem-solving perspective while leveraging exploratory interviews and observations, we build a theoretical framework to examine how specific attributes of the technical problem broadcast by firms affect the seekers' choice between alternative intellectual property rights (IPR) arrangements that call for acquiring or licensing-in IPR from external solvers (i.e., with high and low degrees of ownership, respectively). Each technical problem differs in the knowledge required to be solved as well as in the stage of development of the innovation process and seeker firms pay great attention to such characteristics when deciding about the IPR arrangement they choose for their contests. In addition, we analyze how this choice between acquiring and licensing-in IPR, in turn, influences the performance of the contest. We empirically test our hypotheses analyzing a unique dataset of 729 challenges broadcast on the InnoCentive platform from 2010 to 2016. Our results indicate that challenges related to technical problems in later stages of the innovation process are positively related to the seekers' preference toward IPR arrangements with a high level of ownership, while technical problems involving a higher number of knowledge domains are not. Moreover, we found that IPR arrangements with a high level of ownership negatively affect solvers' participation and that IPR arrangement play a mediating role between the attributes of the technical problem and the solvers' self-selection process. Our paper contributes to the open innovation and crowdsourcing literature and provides practical implications for both managers and contest organizers.
DOI	10.1111/jpim.12467
Cilt	35

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“To own or not to own?” A study on the determinants and consequences of alternative intellectual property rights arrangements in crowdsourcing for innovation contests

Yazar Mazzola, E., Acur, Nuran, Piazza, M., Perrone, G.

Basım Tarihi 2018-11

Basım Yeri - Wiley

Tür Süreli Yayın

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Demirbaş Numarası 0737-6782

Kayıt Numarası 4902369d-09c6-4f59-b408-c2adb9a8df2f

Lokasyon Business Administration

Tarih 2018-11

Notlar Aalborg Universitet||Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council||Bilkent Üniversitesi||University of Strathclyde||University of Glasgow||Economic and Social Research Council||Università degli Studi di Palermo

Örnek Metin Firms are increasingly engaging in crowdsourcing for innovation to access new knowledge beyond their boundaries; however, scholars are no closer to understanding what guides seeker firms in deciding the level at which to acquire rights from solvers and the effect that this decision has on the performance of crowdsourcing contests. Integrating property rights theory and the problem-solving perspective while leveraging exploratory interviews and observations, we build a theoretical framework to examine how specific attributes of the technical problem broadcast by firms affect the seekers' choice between alternative intellectual property rights (IPR) arrangements that call for acquiring or licensing-in IPR from external solvers (i.e., with high and low degrees of ownership, respectively). Each technical problem differs in the knowledge required to be solved as well as in the stage of development of the innovation process and seeker firms pay great attention to such characteristics when deciding about the IPR arrangement they choose for their contests. In addition, we analyze how this choice between acquiring and licensing-in IPR, in turn, influences the performance of the contest. We empirically test our hypotheses analyzing a unique dataset of 729 challenges broadcast on the InnoCentive platform from 2010 to 2016. Our results indicate that challenges related to technical problems in later stages of the innovation process are positively related to the seekers' preference toward IPR arrangements with a high level of ownership, while technical problems involving a higher number of knowledge domains are not. Moreover, we found that IPR arrangements with a high level of ownership negatively affect solvers' participation and that IPR arrangement play a mediating role between the attributes of the technical problem and the solvers' self-selection process. Our paper contributes to the open innovation and crowdsourcing literature and provides practical implications for both managers and contest organizers.

DOI 10.1111/jpim.12467

Cilt 35