RT Generic
T1 The strategic allocation of inventors to R&D collaborations
A1 Palomeras, Neus
A1 Wehrheim, David Alexander
AB Safeguarding against unintended leakage of valuable knowledge in R&D collaboration requires careful attention to the role of inventors participating in these collaborations. In this paper, we claim that the degree of protection of the knowledge embodied by inventors affects how an opportunistic partner can use this information when technology leakage occurs. The implication is that those inventors whose set of knowledge is more protected are more likely to be assigned to joint activities than their co-workers. By relying on patent ownership and authorship data, we analyze the allocation of inventors to collaborative projects from a sample of large pharmaceutical firms. Our results confirm that inventors are strategically allocated to projects according to their degree of preemptive power.
PB Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía de la Empresa
SN 2387-175X
YR 2016
FD 2016-03
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/22609
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/22609
LA eng
NO Financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Economics and Competition through project no ECO2012-33427 is gratefully acknowledged
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