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Aija LeiponenAssistant Professor Areas of ExpertiseEconomics and Management of Innovation, Organizational Economics, Business Strategy
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Aija Leiponen joined the Department of Applied Economics and Management in 2001. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration. During her doctoral studies, she spent two years as a Fulbright scholar in the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. Prior to joining Cornell University, she carried out research at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria, Institute for Industrial Relations in UC Berkeley, and the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA) in Finland.
Professor Leiponen’s teaching and research focus on the sources and effects of technological change in the economy. The overarching goal of her research program is to understand the role of inter-organizational cooperation in innovation. For example, she has examined the creation and transfer of knowledge between business service firms (such as management consulting, engineering, and R&D services) and their clients, the decentralization of R&D activities into geographically distinct units, and the cooperative creation of technological standards in wireless telecommunications.
Most recent projects investigate small firms’ strategies to protect the returns on their innovation investments, and wireless telecommunication firms' prior art search strategies in patenting.
Teaching
AEM 3220: Internet Strategy
AEM 3330: European Business Institutions
AEM 4370: Innovation Strategy
Selected Publications
Competing Through Cooperation: The Organization of Standard Setting in Wireless Telecommunications. Forthcoming. Management Science, 2008.
Control of Intellectual Assets in Client Relationships: Implications for Innovation. Forthcoming. Strategic Management Journal, 2008.
What exactly are technological regimes? Intra-industry heterogeneity in the organization of innovation activities (joint with Ina Drejer). Research Policy Vol. 36: 1221-1238 (2007).
Organization of Knowledge Exchange: An Empirical Study of Knowledge-Intensive Business Service Relationships. Economics of Innovation and New Technology Vol. 15, No. 4-5: 443-464 (2006).
Skills and Innovation. International Journal of Industrial Organization Vol. 23, No. 5-6: 303-323 (lead article) (2005).
Core Complementarities of the Corporation: Organization of an Innovating Firm. Managerial and Decision Economics Vol. 26: 351-365 (2005).
Managing Knowledge for Innovation: The Case of Business-to-Business Services. Journal of Product Innovation Management Vol. 23, No. 3: 238-258 (2005).
Organization of Knowledge and Innovation: The Case of Finnish Business Services. Industry and Innovation Vol. 12, No. 2: 185-203 (2005).
National styles in the setting of global standards: The relationship between firms? standardization strategies and national origin. Pp. 350-372 in How Revolutionary was the Revolution? National Responses, Market Transitions, and Global Technology in the Digital Era by A. Newman and J. Zysman (eds.). Stanford University Press (2005).
Working Papers (available upon request)
Innovation Objectives, Knowledge Sources, and the Benefits of Breadth (joint with Constance E. Helfat). Under second review in Strategic Management Journal.
When Does Distributed Innovation Make Sense? Location, Decentralization, and Innovation Success (joint with Constance E. Helfat). Under revision for Organization Science.
Can't Block, Must Run: Small Firms and Appropriability (joint with Justin Byma). Under revision for Research Policy.
Is Service Innovation Different? Under review at Industrial and Corporate Change.
Collaboration and Networking in Cooperative Standard Setting (joint with Talia Bar).
Work in Progress
Value Creation and Capture from Emerging Technologies (joint with Ari Hyytinen and Markku Maula).
Global Engagement and Innovation Performance (joint with Constance Helfat, Jonathan Haskel, and Matthew Slaughter).
Education
Ph.D. (Economics), Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, 2000
M.S. (Economics), Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, 1993
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