Aija Leiponen

Biography

Aija Leiponen’s expertise focuses on organizational strategies in innovation, particularly cooperation between organizations. She has studied the organization of innovation through inter-organizational contracts, organizational structures at the firm level, and inter-organizational networks of repeated collaborative innovation, particularly in digital industries. Her recent work has examined the interaction between conflict and cooperation in wireless telecommunication standard development and the nature and implications of markets for (big) data.

Education

PhD Helsinki Graduate School of Economics, Aalto University, 2000
MS Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, Aalto University, 1993

Research

• Thomas, Llewellyn; Leiponen, Aija; Koutroumpis, Pantelis. "Profiting from data products"Research Handbook on Digital Strategy, Ed. Carmelo Cennamo, Ed. Giovanni Dagnino, Ed. Feng Zhu. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. (2023): 255-272
• Kretschmer, Tobias; Leiponen, Aija; Schilling, Melissa; Vasudeva, Gurneeta. "Platform ecosystems as meta-organizations: Implications for platform strategies"Strategic Management Journal. 43.3 (2022): 405-424
• Leiponen, Aija; Thomas, Llewellyn; Wang, Qian. "The DApp Economy: A new platform for distributed innovation? Innovation: Organization and Management."Innovation: Organization and Management. 24.1 (2022): 125-143
• Koutroumpis, Pantelis; Leiponen, Aija; Thomas, Llewellyn. "Digital instruments as invention machines"Communications of the ACM. 64.1 (2021): 70-78
• Koutroumpis, P.; Thomas, L.; Leiponen, Aija. "Markets for Data"Industrial and Corporate Change. 29.3 (2020): 645–660
• Leiponen, Aija; Delcamp, Henry. "The Anatomy of a Troll: Patent Licensing Business Models in the Light of Patent Reassignment Data"Research Policy. 48.1 (2019): 298-311
• Jones, Stephen; Leiponen, Aija; Vasudeva, Gurneeta. "The Evolution of Cooperation in the Face of Conflict: Evidence from the Innovation Ecosystem for Mobile Telecom Standards Development"Strategic Management Journal. 42.4 (2021): 710-740
• Koutroumpis, P.; Leiponen, Aija. "Crowdsourcing mobile coverage"Telecommunications Policy. 40.6 (2016): 515-594