Intellectual Property and Competitive Advantage & Financial Advantage

• Project/Area Number: 25380545
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Management
• Research Institution: Kanagawa University
• Principal Investigator: Nishimura Yoichiro 神奈川大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (10409914)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
• Keywords: 特許戦略 / 技術経営 / 特許 / 知識排他性 / 知識スピルオーバー / 負債調達 / 国際情報交換 / 排他性 / 資金調達 / 資金調達の優位性 / 負債調達の優位性 / 特許ライフサイクル / 技術ライフサイクル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The aim of this research is to examine the relationship between intellectual property and two sorts of advantage such as competitive advantage and financing advantage. This research will make contribution to providing the evidence that the more intellectual property a company owns the higher two sorts of advantage are. We have the following concrete results.
We finished our analysis regarding the relationship between intellectual property and competitive advantage. We have submitted our manuscript to Annual meeting of Academy of Management. However our manuscript was rejected. Thus this manuscript is under revision.
We also finished our analysis regarding the relationship between intellectual property and financing advantage. We are now preparing for submitting this manuscript to International Journal.

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] University of California, Irvine(米国)
• [Int'l Joint Research] Lancaster University Management School(英国)
• [Presentation] Patent Life-cycle and Invention Life-cycle: Evidence from a Patent Utilization Survey of Japanese Firms (2015)
  • Author(s): Nishimura, Yoichiro
  • Organizer: 2015 PDMA Research Forum
  • Place of Presentation: Anaheim, California, United States
  • Year and Date: 2015-11-07
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Is Patenting a Silver Medal? Implications for Corporate Patenting Strategies and Corporate Competitive Advantage (2015)
  • Author(s): Nishimura, Yoichiro
  • Organizer: TIM Junior Faculty Consortium, 2015 Academy of Management Annual Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  • Year and Date: 2015-08-07
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Use of Grace Period and its Impact on Knowledge Flow: Evidence from Japan (2014)
  • Author(s): Sadao Nagaoka and Yoichiro Nishimura
  • Organizer: Conference on IP Statistics for Decision Makers
  • Place of Presentation: Hotel Okura, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2014-11-17 – 2014-11-18
• [Presentation] Complementarity, Fragmentation, and the Effects of Patent Thickets (2014)
  • Author(s): Sadao Nagaoka and Yoichiro Nishimura
  • Organizer: European Economic Association & Econometric Society
  • Place of Presentation: Universite Toulouse, Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse, France
  • Year and Date: 2014-08-25 – 2014-08-29
• [Presentation] Corporate IP Strategy (2014)
  • Author(s): Yoichiro Nishimura
  • Organizer: Intellectual Property Law In East Asia
  • Place of Presentation: University of Washington, School of Law, Seattle, United States
  • Year and Date: 2014-04-24
• [Presentation] Invention Life-cycle and Patent Life-cycle (2013)
  • Author(s): 西村陽一郎
  • Organizer: データ研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 神奈川大学
• [Presentation] 知的財産権と資金調達優位性との関係性分析 (2013)
  • Author(s): 西村陽一郎
  • Organizer: 日本知財学会
  • Place of Presentation: 青山学院大学
• [Presentation] Debt Financing and IPRs (2013)
  • Author(s): 西村陽一郎
  • Organizer: IIPR Workshop
  • Place of Presentation: NISTEP and GRIPS
• [Presentation] Patent Life-cycle and Invention Life-cycle: Evidence from Patent Utilization Survey for Japanese Firms (2013)
  • Author(s): Yoichiro Nishimura
  • Organizer: Asian Innovation Network Conference
  • Place of Presentation: National Taiwan University
• [Remarks] EEA & Econometric Society
  • URL: http://www.eea-esem.com/EEA-ESEM/2014/m/viewpaper.asp?pid=2053
• [Remarks] Conference on IP Statistics for Decision Makers
  • URL: http://www.jpo.go.jp/torikumi_e/ibento_e/program/index.htm