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on Economics of Strategic Management |
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Issue of 2024‒03‒18
three papers chosen by João José de Matos Ferreira, Universidade da Beira Interior |
| By: | Elise-Nicoleta Valcu (University of Pitesti, Romania) |
| Abstract: | The investment made in generating and applying intellectual capital is a determining factor in terms of competitiveness and performance related to innovation, regardless of whether we consider a cross-border or a national market. In most cases, marketers resort to different means to appropriate the results of their own innovation activities. One of these means is the use of intellectual property rights, such as patents, design rights or copyright. Another means of protecting innovation results is to protect access to information that has some value to an entity and is not widely known. In the context of Union law, mentioning in this regard Directive (EU) 2016/943 on the protection of know-how and undisclosed business information (trade secrets) know-how and valuable undisclosed business information which is intended to remain confidential are called trade secrets. In the context of an increasingly dynamic and technological Union and international market, trade secrets, characterized by the fact that they go beyond the framework of technological knowledge and include commercial data, such as customer and supplier information, business plans and studies and strategies market, are as important as patents and other forms of intellectual property rights. The issue of commercial secrecy is regulated in Romanian legislation under OG 25/2019 on the protection of know-how and undisclosed business information that constitutes secrets. Therefore, this research aims to address the issue of commercial secrecy as a variation of the know-how from the EU and Romanian legislative perspective of transposition. |
| Keywords: | trade secret, technical procedures, trade secret holder, infringer |
| Date: | 2023–06 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:smo:raiswp:0288&r=cse |
| By: | Ma, Song (Yale U); Wang, Wenyu (Indiana U); Wu, Yufeng (Ohio State U) |
| Abstract: | This paper argues that firms proactively use innovation decisions to influence the mobility and human capital accumulation of their workers. We develop a dynamic model in which workers conduct R&D projects, accumulating both general and firm-specific human capital. Firms choose the scope of innovation, influencing the type of human capital workers accumulate during the process. Pursuing more general innovation leads to increased knowledge redeployability for the firm at the cost of more difficult employee retention. We estimate the model using granular innovation production and mobility data of three million inventors. Our model closely matches the observed mobility and innovation specificity over inventors' life cycles. Empirical estimates of the model parameters imply that 24% of observed innovation specificity among U.S. firms is driven by their labor market considerations, which enhances the firm value but lowers the inventors' surplus. |
| JEL: | J24 J63 O31 |
| Date: | 2023–12 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ecl:ohidic:2023-29&r=cse |
| By: | Verger, Nicolas (Grenoble Ecole de Management); DUYMEDJIAN, Raffi; Roberts, Julie |
| Abstract: | Innovation has often been heralded as important in societal progress. Current innovation practices approach creation as an endless endeavour without much consideration of the end result of those innovations. However, in a world in which natural materials are ever depleting due to extractivism modes of operations that support those same innovations, it becomes increasingly important to reflect upon – and implement – new ways through which innovation comes to an end. In some fields, including Energy Studies and Transition Studies, this process has been labelled “exnovation”. Yet, literature on the subject remains scarce, and its development limited in other fields, notably in organisation and management studies. Part of the reason for this lack of research on exnovation could be explained by a lack of thorough synthesis presenting the concept. In this study, we used bibliometric network analyses to conduct a systematic review. We have critically explored the definition of exnovation across different fields, and identified the fields in which exnovation was (or has not) featured much development. We found two major clusters of fields that leverage the concept of exnovation: transition/energy/sustainability studies, on the one hand; medicine, on the other. There is however not much interconnectivity between these clusters. Moreover, we show that these two clusters do not use the term “exnovation” in the same way. The first cluster has mentioned approaches to exnovation from a global, policy perspective. The second cluster, from a practitioner perspective. This research article then builds on these systematic findings to propose a perspective that reconciles these two views. We propose that, far from being opposite to innovation, exnovation is a complement to it. As much as innovation is the ability to implement an idea; exnovation is the ability to dis-implement it. We further discuss that both are influenced by external factors that regulate them, either from a higher scale (global) policy-side or from a lower scale (local) practice side. We conclude through the concept of “Novation” a process that integrates both in-novation and ex-novation as the input and output of the same continuum. |
| Date: | 2024–02–12 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:osfxxx:c2mgk&r=cse |