Impact of intellectual property rights on the governance mode decisions of engineering managers during the establishment of research alliances with publicly funded entities

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Staphorst, Leonard
Holland, Mike
Pretorius, Leon
Pretorius, Marthinus W.

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Taylor and Francis

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Strengthening intellectual property rights for publicly financed research and development (R&D) ensures that research organizations maximize the full national value of the intellectual property that they generate, but potential negative spillover effects on the perceived value of a research alliance might deter an existing alliance partner from continued collaboration or a potential alliance partner from future collaboration. This study, performed in 2010 within the context of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in South Africa, aimed to develop a structural equation modeling-based value-mediation governance decision-making model that will enable engineering managers at publicly financed R&D organizations to select optimal governance modes for the research alliances they are establishing to grow their organizations’ R&D capabilities.

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Intellectual property rights, Research alliances, Structural equation modelling (SEM), Value-mediation governance, Research and development (R&D)

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Leonard Staphorst, Mike Holland, Leon Pretorius & Marthinus Willem Pretorius (2017) Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on the Governance Mode Decisions of Engineering Managers During the Establishment of Research Alliances With Publicly Funded Entities, Engineering Management Journal, 29:1, 26-44, DOI: 10.1080/10429247.2016.1278140.