2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Research on Strategy to integrate Intellectual Property Management with Product Development Process
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16530244
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Business administration
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| Research Institution | KYUSHU UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
NAGATA Akiya Kyushu University, Graduate School of Economics, Associate Professor, 大学院・経済学研究院, 助教授 (50303342)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
GOTO Akira University of Tokyo, Research Center of Advanced Science and Technology, 先端科学技術研究センター, 教授 (20054380)
HIRATA Toru Niigata University of International and Information Studies, Faculty of Information Culture, Associate Professor, 情報文化学部, 助教授 (10249138)
SHINOZAKI Kaori Tokyo Fuji University, Faculty of Management Science, Lecturer with Tenure, 経営学部, 専任講師 (50362017)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2005
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| Keywords | Intellectual Property Management / Product Development Strategy / Life Cycle Management / Pharmaceutical Industry / Patent Strategy / Appropriability / Patent Thicket |
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| Research Abstract |
This research aimed to make a corporate strategic framework to integrate the intellectual property management with the product development processes, and to clarify the organizational structure of intellectual property division will be suitable to accomplish the integration strategy. We paid attention to the life cycle management of intellectual property in the pharmaceutical firms as a remarkable case which aiming at such integration strategy.
We conducted a questionnaire survey targeting 191 Japanese pharmaceutical firms, and acquired the responses from 64 firms in 2004. The following point became clear by our analysis based on these sample data. It becomes the important subject of big pharmaceutical firms that to appropriate the profit from their own innovation, because a large sum of R&D expenditure should be necessary for the new product development. Therefore, most of the big firms have already strengthened engaging to life cycle management of the intellectual property. The engaging actually exerts effect on extension of product life cycle and the exclusion of the generic products. And, strengthening of cross-functional relationship is being attempted in the process by the establishment of the formal project team and so on.
While the appropriability of the profit from innovation is raised for the innovative firms, it has the possibility that an innovation is delayed in the industry as a whole, because the strategy obstructs the diffusion of the new technology. To verify this point, we analyzed the possibility of the existence of "patent thicket" by using the data of the Japan Patent Office "Survey of Intellectual Property-Related Activities". It was shown that the possibility of patent thickets clear gradually during the past three years though it is not still observed as a serious hampering factor for innovation.
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Research Products
(23 results)
