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Lee Davis

Lee Davis
Associate professor
Lee Davis

Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics

Kilevej 14a, 3th floor
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 2547
Fax:+45 3815 2540
E-mail: ld.ino@cbs.dk



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Affiliated with Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics (DRUID) , Research Center on Biotech Business, and Center for Law, Economics and Financial Institutions (LEFIC)

Primary research areas

  • Business economics analysis of intellectual property rights
  • Incentives to invention and innovation
  • Firms' strategic use of patents, trademarks and copyrights
  • Appropriability and innovation
  • Danish academic researchers' cooperation with business, including patenting, in the life sciences


Selected publications

Davis, L, Larson, M.T. and Lotz, P. (2009). “Scientists’ perspectives concerning the effects of university patenting on the conduct of academic research in the life sciences,” Journal of Technology Transfer. Published online, November 9, 2009.
"Competing on IP: Licensing strategies of the new intellectual property vendors," forthcoming in California Management Review, Winter, 2008 (February issue)
With Jerome Davis. "The 'Mad Max puzzle': positioning the the lone inventor," forthcoming in Fuglsang, L., ed. Innovation and the Creative Process (London: Edward Elgar Publishers), January 2008.
"Why do small high-tech firms take out patents, and why not?" in Andersen, Birgitte, ed. Intellectual Property Rights: Innovation, Governance and the Institutional Environment (London: Edward Elgar), 2006, 148-176.
"Globalisation, digitisation and the changing role of copyrights," in MacMillan, Fiona, ed., New Directions for Copyright, Vol. 2 (London, Edward Elgar), 2006, 79-96.
Davis, L. (2004). “Intellectual property, strategy and policy,” Economics of Innovation and New Technology 13 (5), July, 399-41.
Davis, L. and Meyer, K. (2004). “Subsidiary Research and Development and the Local Environment,” International Business Review, 13 (3), 359-382.
Davis, L. (2001). “R&D Investments, Information and Strategy,” Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, Vol. 13:3, 325-342.


Last updated by Shi Hua Chen Kold 23/11/2011