The Effectiveness and Impact of Intellectual Property Rights: The Case of Digital Content Industry of Taiwan

The concept of Open Innovation (hereafter as OI) implies that ideas, resources and talents flow in and out of organization with the purpose that firms rely on external sources of innovation. This paper highlights an un-observed Intellectual property rights (IPRs) strategies in the current debate on open innovation, that is, the foundational question related to the decisive role of IPRs under which conditions of broadening openness is beneficial to appropriability of firms? The paper approaches this question by conceptualizing the degree of 'openness' in the literature and analyses the importance of IPRs strategies for innovation performance in the context of Taiwanese digital content industry.