TITLE:
A Review of Complementary Assets
AUTHORS:
Xiaolin Zhou
KEYWORDS:
Complementary Assets, Technology Innovation, Technology Commercialization
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Industrial and Business Management,
Vol.9 No.9,
September
5,
2019
ABSTRACT:
What attracts the increasing number of scholars’ attention was that the innovators
were often not the biggest beneficiaries of technological innovation.
Teece came up with the concept of complementary assets to solve this problem,
after which complementary assets have gradually become the hot topic
of scientific research. This essay summarized the definition, classification,
measurement of complementary assets as well as the relationship between
complementary assets and innovation and commercialization that was proposed
by scholars at home and abroad. At the same time, a brief view of current
research situation of complementary assets was made. In the end, some
thoughts on the further development of complementary assets were presented.