Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.5465/AMJ.2009.47084665
Title: DOES PATENT STRATEGY SHAPE THE LONG-RUN SUPPLY OF PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE? EVIDENCE FROM HUMAN GENETICS
Authors: Huang, Kenneth G 
Murray, Fiona E
Keywords: Social Sciences
Business
Management
Business & Economics
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY-RIGHTS
ABSORPTIVE-CAPACITY
INNOVATION
SCIENCE
TECHNOLOGY
ORGANIZATION
BIOTECHNOLOGY
NETWORKS
MARKET
TRANSFORMATION
Issue Date: Dec-2009
Publisher: ACAD MANAGEMENT
Citation: Huang, Kenneth G, Murray, Fiona E (2009-12). DOES PATENT STRATEGY SHAPE THE LONG-RUN SUPPLY OF PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE? EVIDENCE FROM HUMAN GENETICS. ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 52 (6) : 1193-1221. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMJ.2009.47084665
Abstract: Knowledge-based firms seeking competitive advantage often draw on the public knowledge stream (ideas embedded in public commons institutions) as the foundation for private knowledge (ideas firms protect through private intellectual property [IP] institutions). However, understanding of the converse relationship-the impact of private knowledge strategies on public knowledge production-is limited. We examine this question in human genetics, where policy makers debate expanding IP ownership over the human genome. Our difference-in-differences estimates show that gene patents decrease public genetic knowledge, with broader patent scope, private sector ownership, patent thickets, fragmented patent ownership, and a gene's commercial relevance exacerbating their effect.
Source Title: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/243622
ISSN: 0001-4273
1948-0989
DOI: 10.5465/AMJ.2009.47084665
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