David Teece

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David J. Teece
Born (1948-09-02)September 2, 1948
Blenheim, New Zealand
Fields Corporate Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, International Management, Competition Policy
Institutions Berkeley Research Group, LLC
University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business
Alma mater University of Canterbury, MComm
University of Pennsylvania, MA, PhD
Doctoral advisor Edwin Mansfield
Website
brg-expert.com

David John Teece, CNZM (born September 2, 1948), is an American organizational theorist and the Professor in Global Business and director of the Tusher Center on Intellectual Capital at the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Teece is also the chairman and cofounder of Berkeley Research Group, LLC, an expert services and consulting firm headquartered in Emeryville, California.[1] His areas of interest include corporate strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, competition policy, and intellectual property.[2]

Biography

Teece grew up in Blenheim and Nelson, New Zealand and attended Waimea College before enrolling in 1967 at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, where he earned a bachelor's degree and then a Master of Commerce degree.[3][4]

He moved to the United States to attend the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received a Ph.D. in economics, specializing in industrial economics, international trade, and technological innovation.[3][5] Two members of the Economics faculty had a particular influence on his research that he later acknowledged in articles he wrote in tribute to each of them: Edwin Mansfield, a pioneer in the study of industrial R&D and the economics of technological change;[6] and Oliver Williamson, Nobel Laureate and creator of Transaction Cost Economics.[7]

Teece taught at Stanford Graduate School of Business from 1975 until 1982, when he was hired by the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley, where he is a chaired professor.[1][3] He has published more than 200 academic articles and more than a dozen books,[1][8] and Google Scholar notes that he has been cited at least 67,000 times. He co-founded and serves on the editorial board of two academic journals: Industrial & Corporate Change (Oxford University Press) and the Russian Management Journal.

Research Areas

Capturing value from innovation

Teece’s 1986 paper “Profiting from Technological Innovation” was selected by the editors as one of the best papers published in Research Policy from 1971 to 1991 [9] and is the most cited paper ever published in the publication.[10][11] In this paper, Teece explained why innovative firms often fail to capture economic returns from their invention. He described how it is sometimes more important for a business to be able to win at marketing, distribution, manufacturing, and other areas than to come up with a big idea in the first place.[12] In October 2006, Research Policy published a special issue commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the original article.[13]

In this paper, Teece argued that the winners from breakthrough ideas can be companies that control distribution and consumer service, not the inventors.[8] He identified the factors which determine who wins from innovation: the firm that is first to market, follower firms, or firms that have related capabilities that the innovator needs.[14] 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.[15] Teece clarified that imitability and complementary assets "will have a strong influence in determining who will ultimately profit from an innovation. Imitability refers to how easily competitors can copy or duplicate the technology or process of underpinning the innovation."[16] Sidney Winter has argued that Teece’s paper contributes “en passant but fundamentally, to the clarification of basic questions.” [17]

Dynamic capabilities

Teece is closely identified with the dynamic capabilities perspective in strategic management.[18] Dynamic capabilities have been defined as “the ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal and external competencies to address rapidly changing environments".[19] According to ScienceWatch, his paper (with Gary Pisano and Amy Shuen) "Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management" was the most cited paper in economics and business globally for the period from 1995 to 2005.[20]

Teece's concept of dynamic capabilities is a theory about the source of corporate agility: "the capacity (1) to sense and shape opportunities and threats, (2) to seize opportunities, and (3) to maintain competitiveness through enhancing, combining, protecting, and, when necessary, reconfiguring the business enterprise's intangible and tangible assets."[21]

Consulting

In 1988, Teece founded the Law and Economics Consulting Group with other professors from UC Berkeley, providing expert witness testimony in cases including Oracle’s PeopleSoft merger battle.[8]

Teece has worked on matters in industries ranging from music recording to DRAMS, software, lumber, and petroleum, and has testified in both state and federal court, before Congress, and before the Federal Trade Commission, as well as in international jurisdictions.

In the 2000 Napster, Inc. case, record companies acting as plaintiffs hired Teece to write an expert report in an attempt to shut down the free digital file-swapping site.[8] U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel cited Teece's report several times in her ruling in favor of the music industry.[8]

In February 2010, Teece founded Berkeley Research Group, which as of January 2014 had 26 offices in the United States, Australia, Canada, Colombia, and the United Kingdom.[1][22]

In 2012, Teece provided expert testimony regarding damages in the Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. case.

In the 2013 Innovatio case, U.S. Federal Court Judge James F. Holderman cited Teece’s report several times.[23] Teece is described as a “'leading authority' on matters related to antitrust and competition policy and intellectual property stating and is 'highly sought after.'”[24]

Scholar and international executive

John Cantwell, editor of the Journal of International Business Studies, notes that Teece is perhaps the only person in the world that could qualify today, like economist Daniel Ricardo did in the past, as both an eminent scholar and business leader.[25]

Honors

Teece holds four honorary doctorates: Saint Petersburg State University (2000), where he was honored for his role in co-founding the business school;[3] Copenhagen Business School (2004); Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland, 2004); and University of Canterbury (2007).[5][26] He is also an honorary professor at China's Zhongnan University of Economics and Law and King Saud University in Saudi Arabia and an Honorary Member of the Law and Economics Association of New Zealand.

In 2002, Accenture listed Teece among its Top 50 Business Intellectuals.[26] The ranking system was based on a combination of Google name hits, LexisNexis media database searches, and citations found in the Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.

In 2003, Lappeenranta University presented Teece with the first Viipuri International Prize in Strategic (Technology) Management and Business Economics.[26][27]

A 2008 analysis by Thomson Scientific found him to be one of the top-10 most-cited scholars in economics and business from 1997 to 2007.[28]

A 2011 article, “Innovation in Multi-Invention Contexts,”[29] coauthored with Deepak Somaya and Simon Wakeman, was selected as the winner of the 2012 California Management Review Best Article Award.[30] This article presents a framework designed to help guide managers of innovating firms in designing appropriate strategy when seeking to bring an innovation to market in a multi-invention context.

In the 2013 New Year Royal Honours, Teece was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to New Zealand–United States relations.[31] He also received the Academy of International Business Eminent Scholar Award in Istanbul in July 2013.[32]

Selected Publications

Teece has published more than 200 papers and more than a dozen books.[8] They include:

  • Strategy, Innovation and the Theory of the Firm. Edward Elgar. 2012. 
  • Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management: Organizing for Innovation and Growth. Oxford University Press. 2009.  Second edition (with new preface), 2011.
  • The Transfer and Licensing of Know-How and Intellectual Property: Understanding the Multinational Enterprise in the Modern World. World Scientific Publishing. 2008. 
  • Technological Know-How, Organizational Capabilities and Strategic Management. World Scientific Publishing. 2008. 
  • Managing Intellectual Capital: Organizational, Strategic, and Policy Dimensions. Oxford University Press. 2000. 
  • Economic Performance and the Theory of the Firm: The Selected Papers of David Teece. 1 and 2. Edward Elgar Publishing. 1998. 
  • Teece, David; Jorde, Thomas, eds. (1992). Antitrust, Innovation and Competitiveness. Oxford University Press. 

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Entrepreneur Profile David Teece co-founder, Berkeley Research Group LLC". San Francisco Business Times. 2011-02-18. Retrieved 2012-01-26. 
  2. ↑ "David Teece Faculty Profile". 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Brenneman, Richard (2004-08-06). "David Teece: Big Building Backer, Academic Guru, Political Power Player and a Corporate Tycoon". The Berkeley Daily Planet. Retrieved 2012-01-27. 
  4. ↑ "David J. Teece Berkeley Research Group Profile". Retrieved 2012-12-01. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Hughes, Samuel (March/April 2005). "All Business". The Pennsylvania Gazette. Retrieved 2012-01-26. 
  6. ↑ Teece, David J. (January 2005). "Technology and Technology Transfer: Mansfieldian Inspirations and Subsequent Developments". Journal of Technology Transfer (Springer) 30 (1/2): 17–33. Retrieved 2012-05-22. 
  7. ↑ Teece, David J. (Winter 2010). "Williamson's Impact on the Theory and Practice of Management". California Management Review 52 (2): 167–176. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 Anders, George (2007-03-19). "An Economist's Courtroom Bonanza: Whether It's Mötley Crüe or Antitrust Law, Berkeley's David Teece Is Ready to Testify". The Wall Street Journal. pp. A1. 
  9. ↑ Bean, A.S.; Callon, M.; Coenen, R.; Freeman, C.; Meyer-Krahmer, F.; Pavitt, K.L.R.; Roessner, D.; Utterback, J.M. (April 1993). "Introductory Note". Research Policy 22 (2): 99. 
  10. ↑ "Research of David J. Teece, Key Research Topic: Profiting from Technological Innovation". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 2012-06-11. 
  11. ↑ Chesbrough, Henry; Birkinshaw, Julian; Teubal, Morris (October 2006). "Introduction to the research policy 20th anniversary special issue of the publication of "Profiting from Innovation" by David J. Teece". Research Policy 35 (8): 1091–1099. 
  12. ↑ Anders, George (2012-05-02). "Google and Facebook Dead in 5 Years? Fat Chance!". Forbes.com. Retrieved 2012-06-11. 
  13. ↑ "Special issue commemorating the 20th Anniversary of David Teece's article, "Profiting from Innovation", in Research Policy". Research Policy (Elsevier) 35 (8). October 2006. Retrieved 2012-06-11. 
  14. ↑ Teece, David J. (December 1986). "Profiting from Technological Innovation: Implications for integration, collaboration, licensing and public policy". Research Policy (Elsevier) 15 (6): 285–305. doi:10.1016/0048-7333(86)90027-2. Retrieved 2012-06-04. 
  15. ↑ Afuah, Allan N., and Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante (2010). "Innovation Models." In V.K. Narayanan and Gina Colarelli O'Connor (eds.), Encyclopedia of Technology & Innovation Management, p. 107. John Wiley & Sons.
  16. ↑ "The Teece Model". Innovation Zen. Retrieved 2012-06-04. 
  17. ↑ Winter, Sidney (October 2006). "The Logic of Appropriability: From Schumpeter to Arrow to Teece". Research Policy (Elsevier) 35 (8): 1100–1106. 
  18. ↑ Kreiner, Kristian (March 19, 2004). "Honorary Doctorate: Professor David J. Teece". Copenhagen Business School. 
  19. ↑ Teece, David J.; Pisano, Gary; Shuen, Amy (August 1997). "Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management". Strategic Management Journal (John Wiley & Sons) 18 (7): 509–533. 
  20. ↑ "Taking Care of Business, 1995-2005". ScienceWatch. Thomson Scientific. November/December 2005. Retrieved 2012-01-26. 
  21. ↑ Teece, David J. (August 2007). "Explicating Dynamic Capabilities: The Nature and Microfoundations of (Sustainable) Enterprise Performance". Strategic Management Journal (John Wiley & Sons) 28 (13): 1319–1350. doi:10.1002/smj.640. 
  22. ↑ "BRG Office Locations". Retrieved 2014-02-03. 
  23. ↑ Holderman, James F. (2013-09-27). "In re INNOVATIO IP VENTURES, LLC PATENT LITIGATION: Memorandum Opinion, Findings, Conclusions, and Order". Retrieved 2014-01-26. 
  24. ↑ "Who's Who Legal Most Highly Regarded Firms: Arbitration Expert Witnesses 2014". October 2013. Retrieved 2014-01-26. 
  25. ↑ Cantwell, J (2014). "Revisiting international business theory: a capabilities-based theory of the MNE". Journal of International Business Studies 45: 1–7. 
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 "Professional Awards for David J. Teece". University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business. Retrieved 2012-01-26. 
  27. ↑ "The Viipuri Prize". Lappeenranta University of Technology. Retrieved 2012-06-11. 
  28. ↑ "Scientist Rankings in Economics and Business Based on Total Citations". Essential Science Indicators, January 1, 1997 – October 31, 2007. Thomson Scientific. Retrieved 2012-01-26. 
  29. ↑ Somaya, Deepak; Teece, David; Wakeman, Simon (Summer 2011). "Innovation in Multi-Invention Contexts: Mapping Solutions to Technological and Intellectual Property Complexity". California Management Review (University of California, Berkeley) 53 (4): 47–74. 
  30. ↑ "The 2012 Best Article Award". California Management Review. Retrieved 2012-06-11. 
  31. ↑ New Year Honours List 2013. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  32. ↑ Academy of International Business. "AIB Fellows Eminent Scholar Award Session: Honoring David Teece". Retrieved 2014-01-25. 

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