Background Intellectual property (IP) is a substantial competitive advantage in the health care industry. However, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for open innovation and collaboration for the greater good. Despite this, the industry faces challenges with innovation owing to organizational and departmental barriers. A secure platform is necessary to facilitate IP sharing without compromising the rights of IP owners. Objective This study proposes a blockchain-based framework to secure IP transactions in health care and bring social impact. Methods This study reviews existing researches, publications, practical cases, firm and organization websites, and conferences related to blockchain technology, blockchain in health care, blockchain in IP management, IP pledge research, and practice of IP management blockchain. The platform architecture has 7 components: pledgers, advanced research technology (ART), IP pledge platforms, IP databases, health care research, seeking ART, and transaction condition setting. These components work together seamlessly to support the sharing and pledging of ART and knowledge, while ensuring the platform’s transparency, security, and trust. Results The open IP pledge framework can promote technology dissemination and use, reduce research and development costs, foster collaboration, and serve the public interest. Medical organizations’ leadership and support and active participation from stakeholders are necessary for success. By leveraging blockchain technology, the platform ensures tamper-proof and transparent transactions and protects the rights of IP owners. In addition, the platform offers incentive mechanisms through pledge tokens that encourage stakeholders to share their ART and contribute to the platform. Conclusions Overall, the proposed framework can facilitate technological innovation, tackle various challenges, and secure IP transactions. It provides a secure platform for stakeholders to share their IP without compromising their rights, promoting collaboration and progress in the health care industry. The implementation of the framework has the potential to revolutionize the industry’s approach to innovation, allowing a more open and collaborative environment driven by the greater good.
BACKGROUND The IP pledge is one crucial mechanism of open source software (OSS) in which pledgers (inventors, scientists, firms, nonprofit organizations, software developers, etc.) make a commitment to donate or share their intellectual properties (IPs)—patents, copyrights, trademark, trade secret, and related forms—without suing the follow-up adopters to accelerate the speed and development of innovations and address important social issues (such as coronavirus disease-19) based on open innovation (OI). However, there are challenges that may impede the outcomes of IPs pledge, including IPs tracing obstructions, privatization of derivative arts, lack of robust IP protection, multipledged conditions rising the transaction cost, blocking the innovation diffusion of pledged IPs, and hardly analyzing the value of pledge IPs and its impact. OBJECTIVE Seldom do studies and practical management fill the gap of how to address large social issues efficiently and effectively by open pledge models? METHODS This paper attempts to fill this gap by referring to previous literature and practices by building a framework of IPs pledged in healthcare operating through blockchain and smart contract technology. This paper further adopts technology acceptance model (TAM) to design the platform mechanism to make inventors and pledgers are more willing to use the platform easily to facilitate the innovation diffusion. RESULTS This study builds a platform operated by blockchain and suggests that technology and invention transaction need to be managed embedded with a trust process and mechanism so that it can shape the virtuous circle of pledge innovations. CONCLUSIONS Our results can stimulate researchers and practitioners to adopt a useful framework to facilitate innovation diffusion to address the unprecedented transformation of healthcare issues. Furthermore, it extends the integration of inventions from firm field to market field under OI literature context.
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