Arushi Sharma
Area of Research: Technology Management and Innovation Strategy, Value Appropriation and role of Intellectual Property, Entrepreneurship
Passionate about technology innovation management, Arushi brings 15 years of industry experience in business and Intellectual Property (IP) strategy and management to academia. Her research focuses on explicating business growth and strategy and improving the understanding of innovation protection and commercialization to help businesses build and sustain their competitive advantage. Her research explores the changing needs in business models and entrepreneurship across the innovation continuum.
Primarily, she investigates the use of formal and informal appropriation techniques in business environments, particularly to explicate the changing paradigm from closed to open innovation from a firm level and to improve understanding of innovation networks using open collaborative innovation and open business models. She brings her practitioner’s experience to conduct data analysis using a lens of Intellectual Property (IP) strategies and aims to advance theory for discerning the individual and joint impact of various kinds of IP as appropriation techniques. Her studies observe the phenomenon of Artificial Intelligence as a general purpose technology (GPT), its adoption across technology-oriented sectors and the changes it brings in business growth models, strategies and appropriation techniques. Broadly, her research aims to contribute to theory in open innovation, value creation and business strategy while producing relevant frameworks, typologies and guidelines for practitioners to inform their decision-making.
Her work includes:
- Sharma, A., & Westerlund, M. (2020). Topic Modeling of the Literature on Patent Evaluation. In ISPIM Conference Proceedings (pp. 1-20). The International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM).
- Yang, J., Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, P., Sharma, A., & Westerlund, M. (2021). Value Appropriation and Innovation Collaboration Dynamics: A Review And Research Agenda. International Journal of Innovation Management, 2140007.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-6855
Supervisor: Dr. Mika Westerlund