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The Swedish entrepreneurship magazine Entré recently wrote an article about the PhD thesis of Marcus Holgersson, one of our researchers. The article is available here. The abstract of the PhD thesis is available here.

Marcus Holgersson has received the Broman Scholarship for entrepreneurship research. The scholarship will finance part-time research during 2013 to be conducted at the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the School of Business, Economics and Law (University of Gothenburg). The research will focus on output markets for patents, technological specialization, and market and technology diversification on national and company levels.

The paper ‘Multinational technology and intellectual property management – Is there global convergence and/or specialisation?’, written by Ove Granstrand and Marcus Holgersson and forthcoming in International Journal of Technology Management, is now available for download here. With a novel set of quantitative measures, the paper gives various indications of market and technology diversification as well as of global market and technology convergence (rather than specialisation) in the context of managerial, legal and economic convergence. The results show that different countries focus on a wider but increasingly similar set of markets for R&D outputs in form of patents, which implies increasing intra-national market diversification and inter-national market convergence. The results also show that different countries focus on a wider but increasingly similar set of technologies that are patented, which implies increasing intra-national technology diversification and inter-national technology convergence. In addition, intellectual property (IP) legal convergence takes place as newly industrialised countries (NICs) have strengthened their IP regimes in compliance with TRIPS and subsequently do so in the context of their indigenous innovation policies. Asian NICs have significantly increased their international patenting and supply of patented inventions. Altogether, this puts new demands across countries on multinational technology and innovation management skills, and in particular multinational IP management skills.

Two of our researchers are spending this year at Stanford University for research and project work.

Professor Ove Granstrand is spending another period as visiting professor at SIEPR – Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, this time working on a book on Innovation and IP for Growth and Welfare plus various other projects. One project probes IP management and licensing in medical collaborative innovation. Another project regards the role of  IP in environmental innovations.

Erik Olesund is taking master courses and assisting in research.

Each year, the Licensing Executive Society (LES) selects the four best papers from its journal les Nouvelles and name them ‘Articles of the Month’. We are proud to announce that the paper ‘The 25% rule revisited and a new investment-based method for determining FRAND licensing royalties’ by our researchers Ove Granstrand and Marcus Holgersson has been awarded ‘Article of the Month’ for February 2013:

LES Article of the Month

In the paper, a new investment-based method for determining fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing royalties is developed. This method is not only applicable to one-to-one bilateral licensing deals but also to multilateral deals with multiple license sellers and multiple license buyers. The authors also provide an accompanying calculation tool for download here at www.ip-research.org, find more information here.