Maria Isabella Leone

LUISS Guido Carli, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali | Luiss · Department of Business and Management

The teaching case entitled 'Open social innovation local ecosystems: Dolomiti Innovation Valley' describes how to put in practice open social innovation (OSI) management models, showing how apparently fuzzy aspects (such as openness and social change) become operational through multi-stakeholder governance and place-based approaches to sustain impa...

Building on the theories of knowledge recombination, we argue that the external acquisition of technologies acts as a boundary spanning mechanism that impacts on the recipient firm’ subsequent technology development. The effect is moderated by two additional mechanisms, namely the retention of star scientists and the experience in upstream strategi...

The disruptive effects of the knowledge economy paradigm based on technological innovation and creativity is still growing: even during the pandemic crisis, creative and digital competences are sought in diversified entrepreneurial sectors, in particular commercial services that are developed in urban contexts, increasingly intertwined with craft a...

Il contributo analizza i caratteri di una politica urbana che incorporara concetti e approcci tipici dell'innovazione sociale. Con questo obiettivo, esamina un caso studio, 'Un acceleratore per l'economia di territorio', promosso dal comune di Milano con una serie di partner locali e inserito nel framework governativo del Fondo per l'innovazione so...

This study examines how the success of reward-based crowdfunding (RBCF) is affected by two narrative styles—namely “results in progress” (RIP) and “ongoing journey” (OJ)—and by the entrepreneur’s RBCF experience. Our findings reveal that greater success in collecting funds is achieved by RBCF campaigns that are communicated through RIP narrative st...

Coronavirus disease‐19 (COVID‐19) has stimulated urgent innovative responses to tackle the current crisis and unveil new trajectories enabling recovery as early as possible. In the quest for solutions to the pandemic, organizations have been forced to join efforts with an unprecedented number of different stakeholders, including competitors, rising...

When engaging in licensing, companies may either use standard agreements or may embed the licensing deals into broader partnerships. Whether these alternative schemes are more frequently associated with particular types of licensors and licensees and whether they imply different outcomes for the two parties is still underinvestigated in the relevan...

A remarkable growth in the value of trademark licencing has been recently recorded. Our paper contributes to the understanding of this under-explored phenomenon using a dataset newly released by the USPTO. Our study analyses the evolution of licencing activities in the U.S. during the 2003–2017 period, the characteristics of these trademarks and ag...

“Certainly to be able to walk into the room with IP […] that is an advantage” The paper explores trends and features of one of the most visible IP management practices, IP licensing, in the context of start-ups, accessing external technology at the outset of their lifetime. In particular, it compares start-ups and incumbent firms, in terms of licen...

Technology licensing agreements potentially can create future appropriability problems. Drawing on the appropriability literature,we argue that the inclusion of a grantback clause in technology licensing agreements is an attempt to balance the gains from and protection of the focal firms' technologies.We hypothesize that the closer the licensed tec...

This article introduces the distinction between thin and thick contracts to the investigation of licensing-in as a mechanism for technological learning. Thick contracts include a clause specifying that the licensors are obligated to assist the licensees in assimilating and integrating the technology. Drawing on a sample of 133 licensees and an equa...

As patent licensing has become the prime driver of technology trade, understanding the rationales behind a properly-defined payment structure of the agreements is essential. Specifically, among the other remuneration components, upfront fees are critical in license negotiations since they imply a significant initial investment by the licensee and r...

Albeit the phenomenon is currently widespread, the role of licensing in the financing of innovation has been under-investigated by scholars so far. Anecdotal evidence, instead, suggests that in some circumstances licensors is required to further develop the licensed technology which the licensee may finance by paying an upfront fee. Thus, the need...

Licensing is one of the most commonly observed inter-firm contractual agreements. Drawing on the resource-based view of the firm and contract economics, we argue that the inclusion of a grant-back clause in licensing agreements emerges as a consequence of licensor and licensee firms’ requirements to balance the needs to protect their technological...

Drawing on contractual economics and innovation management, licensing-in is hypothesized to accelerate licensees' invention process. Studying a matched dataset of licensees and non-licensees, licensees are shown to be faster at inventing, but the effect is negated if the license includes a grant-back clause, shifting incentives from licensee to lic...

Drawing on contractual economics and innovation management, licensing‐in is hypothesized to accelerate licensees' invention process. Studying a matched dataset of licensees and non‐licensees, licensees are shown to be faster at inventing, but the effect is negated if the license includes a grant‐back clause, shifting incentives from licensee to lic...

The market for technology plays a crucial role in firms’ technology strategy as a way to undertake search in the available technological space. Drawing on innovation search theory and the literatures on licensing and absorptive capacity (AC) we address the issue of the factors that affect how technologically distant from the existing technological...

In this paper, we examine the impact of technology licensing-in on firm invention performance. Studying a sample of 266 licensees and matched non-licensees using a two-part model specification, we find that licensees are more likely to introduce inventions than their non-licensee counterparts. This holds both if we consider invention in general, an...

The design of an appropriate remuneration structure is one of the crucial aspects of patent license negotiation. However, with few exceptions, literature about licensing has paid scarce attention to the determinants of the contractual remuneration structure. Moreover, the licensee’s perspective has been often neglected. The aim of this paper is to...

Patent valuation is one of the most relevant issues within the studies on the management of intellectual property rights. As firms rely more and more on external sources of innovation, the need for reliable measurements of what is traded becomes essential. Patent valuation is especially challenging primary because of the great uncertainty affecting...

Technology inward licensing plays a crucial role in firm's technology strategy as a way to undertake trajectories of search in the available technological space. The links between licensing and the patterns of firms' technological diversification are still underdeveloped in the economics and management literature. The aim of our study is to explore...

Although the licensing phenomenon has gained attention over the last decades, the role of licensing contracts as a source of external finance for innovation has been under-investigated by scholars so far. Empirical evidence, instead, suggests that accessing capital is among the most common reasons to out-license. In some circumstances licensors is...

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Nowadays licensing practices have increased in importance and relevance driving the widespread diffusion of markets for technologies. Firms are shifting from a tactical to a strategic attitude towards licensing, addressing both business and corporate level objectives. The Open Innovation Paradigm has been embraced. Firms rely more and more on colla...