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
How to balance"open"and"exclusive"in the open innovation has become a real dilemma for enterprises,and one of the po-tential 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 differ-ent 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 inno-vation openness and intellectual property protection,dynamically analyses the performance differences of the matching mode with the de-velopment 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.
open innovationintellectual property protectioninnovation contextmatching modelfuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis
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