complementary assets

The first result is that complementary assets should be owned by a single firm.

"There are a lot of complementary assets," she said.

"Each of them offers remarkably complementary assets, tools, ideas," he said.

These are very complementary assets if one is looking to paralyze a nation and then take it over."

"One of the reasons that a deal makes sense is that the two sides have such complementary assets."

It also has equipment and complementary assets to their farming operation, namely:

Complementary assets are broken down into three general types:

Complementary assets, among other factors, are important for organizations wishing to commercialize and profit from an innovation.

Appropriability and complementary assets may be necessary ingredients of success (Teece, 1987).

Key empirical studies on complementary assets were conducted by Frank T. Rothaermel.

Mr. Eguchi brings complementary assets, a pearly sound and a self-effacing polish that ground the music.

With this in mind, Marland management began to look around for a partner, a company with complementary assets, an operation that would perhaps consider a merger.

ABN Amro and Barclays have complementary assets in China.

Teece clarified that imitability and complementary assets "will have a strong influence in determining who will ultimately profit from an innovation.

Today's Columns Packaging was the key to the oil patch auction staged by Tenneco, which carved its properties into 10 segments intended to lure companies with complementary assets.

After the emergence of the dominant design, some firms accumulate complementary assets and exploit possible economies of scale, which in turn raises entry and mobility barriers in the industry.

Complementary assets are assets, infrastructure or capabilities needed to support the successful commercialization and marketing of a technological innovation, other than those assets fundamentally associated with that innovation.

The Teece model characterizes how value is appropriated from the imitability of technology and complementary assets, and helps explain whether an innovator is likely to profit from an innovation.

"Disney and ABC have complementary assets," said John Tinker, a media industry analyst at Furman Selz & Company, "You can really only criticize the deal for its sheer size."

Co-operative R&D ventures which enable participants to share fixed and sunk costs, share risks, pool different complementary assets or benefit from other positive pecuniary externalities will almost certainly raise incentives to do R&D.

However, rivals Coca Cola and Pepsi soon imitated this and beat RC Cola out of the market based on their superior marketing capabilities and brand name recognition, i.e. their complementary assets (Teece 1986) .

New biotechnology firms often lack the complementary assets to commercialize their innovations and thus form collaborative partnerships with large incumbent firms who do possess the necessary complementary assets such as manufacturing capabilities, marketing channels, brand name, etc. (Rothaermel, 2001)

"The F.C.C. recognizes that this merger uniquely combines complementary assets that will generate enormous public interest benefits," and Ivan G. Seidenberg, chairman and chief executive of Bell Atlantic "We look forward to creating the next great brand in communications, one that will set the standard for global communications companies."