The significance of designing around product patents as source of SCA. Implications for strategic management

      Аннотация: The aim of this thesis is to examine the purpose and feasibility of strategies to design around product patents across companies and industries to gain a basis for meaningful decision making, often with the long term goal of achieving a strategic competitive advantage. In this work, the author applies the well known strategic principles behind the organizational capability perspective, the industrial organizational theory and time-based theories to the topic of designing around product patents with the goal to analyze under which conditions a sustainable competitive advantage can be achieved.

Ключевые слова: strategic management, Designing around, by-passing patents, IP management, sustainable competitive advantage, product patents