Facilitating Knowledge Transfer
Current research projects
The Role of IP Protection and its Use in Encouraging Innovation, Competition and Commercialisation
Knowledge Bridging by Biotechnology Start-ups
Employees’ Rights to Intellectual Property
Uncertainty and the Success of Innovation
The Market for Technology
IPRIA working papers
Joshua Gans and Richard Hayes, Assessing Australia’s Innovative Capacity: 2006 Update, IPRIA Report No 03/06 (December 2006)
R Mitch Casselman, Eric Quintaine and B Sebastian Reiche, Reconceptualizing Innovation as a Social and Knowledge-Based Phenomenon, IPRIA Working Paper No 15/06 (November 2006)
Refereed publications
Casselman, R.M. and Sampson, D. (2007), ‘Aligning Knowledge Strategy and Knowledge Capabilities’, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management Volume, 15
Cebon, P. Hauptman, O and C Shekhar, (2006) ‘Product Modularity and the product Lifecycle”, International Journal of Technology Management (forthcoming)
Gans, J, Hsu, D. and Stern, S, “The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas: Evidence from Patent Grant Delays”, NBER Working Paper 13234 (2007), Management Science (forthcoming).
He, Z. Lim, K. and Wong, P. K. (2006) Entry and Competitive Dynamics in the Mobile Telecommunications Market", Research Policy, 20th Anniversary Special Issue of "Profiting from Innovation" by David Teece. Vol. 35, No 8, 1147-1165.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2006.09.004
Jensen, P. and Webster, E., (2009) ‘Knowledge Management: Does Capture Impede Creation?’ Industrial and Corporate Change.
Kapoor, R, and Lim, K, (2007) "The Impact of Acquisitions on the Innovation Performance of Inventors at Semiconductor Companies", Academy of Management Journal. This paper also appears in the Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management Conference 2007.
Kapoor, R. and Lim, K. ‘The Impact of Acquisitions on the Innovation Performance of Inventors at Semiconductor Companies’ conditionally accepted, Academy of Management Journal
Leahy, A., MacLaren, D., Morgan, D., Weatherall, K., Webster, E., and Yong, J., (2008) ”In the Shadow of the China–Australia FTA Negotiations: What Australian Business Thinks About IP”, 27(1) Economic Papers, 1-18
Palangkaraya, A. And Yong, J, (forthcoming) ‘Parallel Imports, Market Size and Investment Incentive, Singapore Economic Review (article accepted in March 2008).
Somaya, D, Williamson, and Lorinkova, N., “The Effects of Employee Mobility Between Competitors and Cooperators on Firm Performance”, Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming)
Somaya, D. & Williamson, I. O. & Lorinkova, N. (2007). The Effects of Employee Mobility between Competitors and Cooperators on Firm Performance. Proceedings of the Academy of Management
Somaya, D., Williamson, I., & Zhang, A., (2007) “Combining Patent Law Expertise with R&D for Patenting Performance”, 18 Organization Science, 922-937
Somaya, D., Williamson, I.O., & Lorinkova, N., (2008) “Gone but not Lost: The Different Performance Impacts of Employee Mobility between Cooperators Versus Competitors”, Academy of Management Journal, 51, 936-953.
Somaya, D., Williamson, I.O., & Zhang, A., (2008) “Combining patent law expertise with R&D for patenting performance”, 18 Organization Science, 922-937
Webster, E., Buddelmeyer, H and Jensen, P. (2007) ‘Innovation and Industrial Revolution’, Australian Economic Review.
Non-refereed publications
Jensen, P. and Webster, E, (2009) ‘Australian Innovation Data’ Australian Economic Review
IPRIA events
Business Models and Patent Strategies for “Multi Invention” Contexts, Dr Deepak Somaya, Robert H Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, 22 March 2007
Commercialising Inventions – What’s the Story? IPRIA/AIC Conference, 17 February 2009 ( Brisbane), 19 February 2009 ( Melbourne)
Does Australia have an Innovation Problem? Book Launch and Panel Discussion, Senator the Hon. Kim Carr. Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Resources, July 2008 (in association with the Melbourne Business School)
In the Shadow of the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement Negotiations: What Australian Business Thinks About IP, Kimberlee Weatherall, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland and Dr Jongsay Yong, MIAESR, Melbourne (21 February 2008), Sydney (22 February 2008), Brisbane (28 February 2008). Held in association with the Australia China Business Council.
Intellectual Property and Innovation: A Different Perspective, Professor David Levine and Professor Eric von Hippel, 11 August 2006
Knowledge Brokering: A Competitive Advantage for Biotech Start-Ups?, Dr Kwanghui Lim, IPRIA & Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne
Manner of Manufacture, Associate Professor David Brennan, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, 10 November ( Sydney), 11 November ( Brisbane), 14 November ( Melbourne)
Should Genes be Patented? Public Forum and Panel Discussion, Dr Gillian Mitchell, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre; Professor Gregory Mandel, Temple University Law School; Professor Dianne Nicol, University of Tasmania Law School; Professor Dan Peled, Haifa University, Israel, 24 April 2009 (Melbourne)
The Copyright Amendment Bill 2006: The Scope and Likely Impact of New Library Exceptions, Emily Hudson, The University of Melbourne, 27 October 2006
The Value of Copyright: Determining Shadow Prices, Associate Professor David Brennan, Melbourne Law School and Dr Rhonda Smith, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne, 10 November (Sydney), 11 November (Brisbane), 18 November (Melbourne)
Universities Innovation Showcase – Delivering Business Solutions, Fourteen speakers including Dr Ian Heath, IP Australia; Dr Charlie Day, Melbourne Venture, The University of Melbourne; Professor Louise Rolland, Swinburne University of Technology; Professor Jugdutt Singh, La Trobe University, 26 April 2007, KPMG, Melbourne
World IP Day 2008 Employees’ IP and the Employment Relationship – Incentives to Innovate, Colin Fenwick, Chris Dent and Graeme Huon, DCC, Melbourne/
Submissions
Elizabeth Webster and Chris Dent, ‘Submission to the Inquiry into Improving Access to Victorian Government Public Sector Information and Data’, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, 2008
Joshua Gans, Supplementary Submission to Productive Commission Study on Public Support for Science & Innovation, Nov 2006
Paul Jensen , Alfons Palangkaraya, Elizabeth Webster (2006) The Productivity Commission Review of Public Support for Science and Innovation, submission made to The Productivity Commission Study on Public Support for Science & Innovation, Nov 2006
Short course
Mastering the Patent System, Professor Andrew Christie, University of Melbourne and Des Ryan, Consultant, Davies Collison Cave, 9 May 2007, University of Melbourne
Media
Andrew Christie, “Thinking Ahead”, Business Review Weekly, October 4-10 p 65
Beth Webster , ‘Innovation and company survival’,ABC radio, Australia Talks Back, 31 October 2006
Ian Williamson, Sibillin, A. (2007 June 14-16). Educate and reward. Business Review Weekly ( Australia)., June 14th, 2007, p. 62-63
Joshua Gans "Cursors, foiled again," Business Review Weekly, , 10th May, 2007.
Joshua Gans "Next generation recorder” Business Review Weekly, 28th June, 2007, p.32.
Joshua Gans "The game is never over," Business Review Weekly, 15th March, 2007, p27
Joshua Gans "Time to book some ad space between the covers?", , Crikey, 7th June, 2007
Joshua Gans, ‘ipod Index.. why not an iTunes Index,’ Crikey, 19th January, 2007
Kwanghui Lim, ‘Spread the Knowledge’, Business Review Weekly, February 1-7, 2007, p 50.
Kwanghui Lim , ‘Spread the Knowledge’, Business Review Weekly, February 1-7, 2007, p 50.
Kwanghui Lim, “Getting The Right Mix ”, An article by Aaron Bouchie in Nature describing the Hsu-Lim paper on Knowledge Bridging, Nature, 24 August 2006
Paul Jensen and Elizabeth Webster, ‘Innovation: Australia's innovation malaise’, Posted: New figures reveal a very patchy performance, write http://www.creative.org.au/webboard/results.chtml?filename_num=227538, 28 August 2008
Paul Jensen and Elizabeth Webster, “Necessity: Mother of Innovation”, Australian Financial Review, p3, 25 August 2008
Peter Cebon 2006. One in a hundred, Business Review Weekly: 62-63. December 14 2006.
Rahul Kapoor and Kwanghui Lim, “Buying companies for new competencies: Is it worth it?”, writeup about Rahul Kapoor and Kwanghui Lim’s Paper in the Academy of Management Journal INSEAD Knowledge, January 2008.
External presentations:
Beth Webster ‘Economic principles of encouraging innovation - research exemptions under patent law’, BHERT Medical Innovation forum, Griffith University, Gold Coast, 11 June 2009.
Beth Webster, ‘Should Copyright be Managed as an Economic Policy?’, Copyright and the Government's Innovation Agenda, Australian Copyright Council and Copyright Society of Australia., Sydney, November 2008
Chris Dent , ‘Labour Laws, IPRs and Employee Innovation’, Intellectual Property and Creativity/Innovation – Critiques and Alternatives, Workshop at Bond University, December 2007
Chris Dent , ‘Workers and their Creative output: A Way Forward?’, Critical Legal Conference, Glasgow, September 2008
Ian Williamson, Deepak Somaya, Natalie Lorinkova, The Different Performance Impacts of Employee Mobility between Competitors and Cooperators, Strategic Management Society Conference, San Diego, US, September 2007
Ian Williamson, Outsourcing the Patenting Process, Australian Industrial Research Group (AIRG) Annual Conference, February 2008
Ian Williamson, Presentation of Personnel Flow Results, Academy of Management Conference, US, August 2007
Joshua Gans, “Start Up Commercialisation Strategy and Innovative Dynamics”, University of Virginia University, Invited Seminar, US, April 2007
Joshua Gans, “Start Up Commercialisation Strategy and Innovative Dyanmics”, International Industry Organisation Society Conference, Savannah, US, April 2007
Joshua Gans, “Tivoed” NYU Seminar, New York, April 2007
Joshua Gans, “Tivoed”, Cornell University Seminar, New York, US, April 2007
Joshua Gans, Patents, Publication and Secrecy: Economic Incentives for Scientific Disclosure, Research Seminar, Stanford University, September 2007
Joshua Gans, Patents, Publication and Secrecy: Economic Incentives for Scientific Disclosure, Research Seminar, Colorado University, September 2007
Joshua Gans, Patents, Publication and Secrecy: Economic Incentives for Scientific Disclosure, Research Seminar, University of Hong Kong, October 2007
Joshua Gans, Start-Up Commercialisation Strategy and Innovative Dynamics, NBER Entrepreneurship: Strategy & Structure Conference, Jackson, WY, US, September 2007
Kwanghui Lim (with Brian Cu), The Effects of Social Networks on Venture Capitalist Advice and Monitoring, Academy of Management Conference, August 2007
Kwanghui Lim and R Katila, (co-organizers and co-chairs), “Measuring Knowledge Flows: Patent and Non-Patent Data”, Academy of Management Conference 2008 Professional Development (forthcoming in August 2008). Note: In January 2008, Lim and Katila were invited to organize and chair a special workshop at the Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim, September 2008
Kwanghui Lim and Riitta Katila, “Professional Development Workshop on Measuring Knowledge Flows using Patent and Non-Patent Data”, Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim, CA, August 2008
Kwanghui Lim , Wenyue Zhuang and Poh-kam Wong , “Old Technological Capability and New Technology Adoption: Firm’s Technology Portfolio Management during Technological Transitions”, Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim, CA, August 2008
Paul Jensen , “Knowledge Management: Does Capture Impede Creation?” ESSID Workshop, Italy, September 2008
Paul Jensen , Innovation, Technological Conditions and New Firm Survival, Invited presentation at Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Policies: The 2007 Ratio Colloquium for Young Social Scientists, Stockholm, August 2007
Paul Jensen , Where to from Here?, Innovation Indicator Workshop, Canberra, July 2007
Paul Jensen ., Innovation, Technological Conditions and New Firm Survival, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin, August 2007
Paul Jensen ., Innovation, Technological conditions and New Firm Survival, NIFU-STEP, Oslo, August 2007
Wenyue Zhuang, Kwanghui Lim and Poh-kam Wong , Old Technological Capability and New Technology Adoption: Firm’s Technology Portfolio Management during Technological Transitions, Academy of International Business Conference, June 2008
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