Thoma Patent Management and Valuation

The Strategic and Geographical Dimension
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-40571-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 310 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations

Research on patent valuation has become increasingly important in the academic and policy circles in last decades or so. On the one hand, this is the outcome of the wide consensus that innovation is a crucial ingredient for growth at various levels. On the other hand, there has been an overcoming of growth models unilaterally focused on technological oriented approaches. This book presents novel and original research on patent value determinants, which could be intrinsic or extrinsic to the innovator's business model.

Grid Thoma has undertook a long study on the strategic factors affecting patent valuation, bringing extensive evidences across various geographical and institutional contexts. Beforehand the valuation of the patent real options is appraised when the innovator can postpone the complementary investment required for the patent's successful exploitation. Then, he analyses what other complemental IP strategies are combined with patenting that in turn directly affect the value of patents. Moreover, the book scrutinizes the so called 'strategic patenting' hypothesis according to which innovators obtain patents for other reasons beyond gaining IP protection.

A second order of strategic factors affecting patent value resides at the outset of the invention process. These are constituted by knowledge spillovers, i.e. unintended leaks of information from the R&D activities incepted by other innovators, which are typically mediated by the local geographical context where the invention takes place. The patent valuation analysis shows that the geographical dimension is a relevant level of analysis for the innovator's decision making.

This thoughtful cutting edge research book is vital reading for researchers, academics and policy decision makers in the area of in Market Valuation, Management of Technology, Innovation Management, and Economic Geography.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thoma, Grid

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Wissensmanagement

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: The Valuation of Patent Assets

1. The Market Value of Patents and R&D

2. Composite Value Index of Patent Indicators

Part 2: The Strategic Dimension of Patent Valuation

3. Combined IP Strategies and the Valuation of Patent Premium

4. Patent Valuation of a General Purpose Technology: An Analysis of Financial Patents and Business Methods

with Bronwyn H. Hall and Salvatore Torrisi

5. Commercialization Strategies of a General Purpose Technology

Part 3: The Geographic Dimension of Patent Valuation

6. The Determinants of the Localization of Knowledge Spillovers

7. Inventor Location and the Globalization of R&D

with Dietmar Harhoff

8. The Value of Chinese Patenting

Über Autor(innen)

Grid Thoma is Assistant Professor with Tenure of Economics and Management at University of Camerino, Macerata, Italy.