Thursby, Jerry, Thursby, Marie. "Protecting and Capitalizing on Intellectual Property and the Types of Research Conducted." Here or There? A Survey of Factors in Multinational R&D Location -- Report to the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2006.
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Here or There? A Survey of Factors in Multinational R&D Location
BOX 3
Strategies for Protecting and Capitalizing onIntellectual Property
Essential elements are omitted from documents to make it more costly to copy or design around. (Omit)
We license-out intellectual property. (IPLicense)
We require payments for know-how transferred. (PayKHow)
We establish strong ties to local authorities. (TiesLocal)
The potentially important intellectual property is developed in the home country. (HomeDev)
We use trade secrets. (TradeSec)
We try to establish our products as the market standard. (MktStan)
We use patents. (Patents)
We use the same intellectual property strategies at home and abroad. (SameIP)
FIGURE 10 Protecting and capitalizing on intellectual property outside the home country.
