The significance of designing around product patents as source of SCA

The aim of this thesis is to examine the purpose and feasibility of strategies to design around product patents across companies and industries to gain a basis for meaningful decision making, often with the long term goal of achieving a strategic competitive advantage. In this work, the author applies the well known strategic principles behind the organizational capability perspective, the industrial organizational theory and time-based theories to the topic of designing around product patents with the goal to analyze under which conditions a sustainable competitive advantage can be achieved.

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During his academic career, Stefan König completed two master's degrees in Export-oriented Management and Business Administration respectively. Since 2012 he has been following his passion of working in various fields within the IT industry, with a focus on project management, consulting and change management.