【Topic】"Who profits from innovation in global value chains? A study of the iPod and notebook PCs."

【Speaker】Jason Dedrick, Associate Professor at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies.

【Time】2009-10-20 (Tue.)15:30-17:00

【Venue】Tsinghua SEM, Weilun 453

【Language】English

【Host】Department of Management Science and Engineering

Abstract

This paper analyzes the distribution of financial value from innovation in the global supply chains of iPods and notebook computers. We find that Apple has captured a great deal of value from the innovation embodied in the iPod, while notebook makers capture a more modest share of the value from PC innovation. In order to understand these differences, we employ concepts from theories of innovation and industrial organization, finding significant roles for industry evolution, complementary assets, appropriability, system integration, and bargaining power.

Jason Dedrick is Associate Professor at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies. He also is co-director of the Personal Computing Industry Center at the University of California, Irvine. His research is focused on the globalization of technology and innovation, and on the organizational impacts of information technology. He studies the economic impacts of IT investment and use at the firm, industry and national level. He has been researching the globalization of technology for twenty years, analyzing the impacts of policy and environment on

technology diffusion and investment. He currently is studying the globalization of innovation and knowledge work and its implications for firms, countries and workers. His research has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the University of California Pacific Rim Research program, the UC-Mexus program and IBM Corporation.

Professor Dedrick is co-author of /Asia’s Computer Challenge: Threat or Opportunity for the United States and the World?/ (Oxford University Press, 1998) and co-editor of /Global E-Commerce: Impacts of National Environment and Policy/ (Cambridge University Press, 2006). His research has appeared in top journals such as /Management Science, Information Systems Research, the Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, California Management Review, and IEEE Computer./