Study on the Matching Model of Innovation Openness and Intellectual Property Protection Considering Innovation Context—A Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis Based on Multiple Time Periods

Abstract

Abstract: How to balance “open” and “exclusive” in the open innovation has become a real dilemma for enterprises, and one of the potential solutions is to adopt the contingency theory to fully consider the heterogeneous innovation context in which enterprises are located. To do this, a theoretical model of the matching pattern between innovation openness and intellectual property protection considering the innovation context is constructed, and fsQCA (fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis) is applied to 50 listed enterprises in China as a sample to empirically explore the effective matching pattern between innovation openness and intellectual property protection under different situation and their dynamic evolution paths. The results show that there are five different patterns of matching between innovation openness and intellectual property protection under the influence of heterogeneous innovation contexts, and there are some differences in the trade-offs between “open” and “exclusive” among enterprises at different stages of open innovation. The matching pattern between openness and intellectual property protection will change dynamically. This study reveals the “black box” of the matching pattern of innovation openness and intellectual property protection, dynamically analyses the performance differences of the matching mode with the development of the innovation stage under the innovation situation and its laws of evolution, and provides a new perspective for enterprises to solve the paradox of openness.

Key words: open innovation, intellectual property protection, innovation context, matching model, fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis

Meng Qingliang, Wu Xueyang, Hang Yi. Study on the Matching Model of Innovation Openness and Intellectual Property Protection Considering Innovation Context—A Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis Based on Multiple Time Periods[J]. Management Review, 2024, 36(12): 157-170.

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