...Benedetta Soranzo; Anna Nosella; Roberto Filippini Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe how the patent planning and patent evaluation processes might be redesigned for firms intending to move from a mere accumulation of patents to a more thoughtful patent management approach...

... innovation Intellectual property management Motives to patent Patent management Technology strategy Society’s dominant motive for having a patent system is to improve the provision of innovations by offering inventors temporary, transferable rights to protect their inventions from imitation...

...Li Zhao; Yang Xiang; Qiulu Yi Purpose As a resource input in enterprise technological innovation, patents play an important role in influencing innovation performance. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of fuzzy front end (FFE) patent management on innovation performance...