Assistant Professor
Applied Economics and Management
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
251 Warren Hall
Department of Applied Economics and Management
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: 607-255-7588
FAX: 607-255-9984
Email:
ael24@cornell.edu
Aija Leiponen joined the Department of Applied Economics and Management in 2001. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration. During her doctoral studies, she spent two years as a Fulbright scholar in the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. Prior to joining Cornell University, she carried out research at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria, Institute for Industrial Relations in UC Berkeley, and the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA) in Finland.
Professor Leiponens teaching and research focus on the sources and effects of technological change in the economy. The overarching goal of her research program is to understand the interactions between organizational arrangements and innovation. For example, she has examined the creation and transfer of knowledge between business service firms (such as management consulting, engineering, and R&D services) and their clients, the role of breadth in terms of approach or location in firms innovation activities, and the cooperative creation of technological standards in wireless telecommunications. Most recent projects investigate small firms' strategies to protect the returns on their innovation investments and the effect of international knowledge sourcing on innovation performance.
Teaching
AEM 322: Internet Strategy
AEM 333: European Business Institutions
AEM 437: Innovation Strategy
Publications
Skills and Innovation. International Journal of Industrial Organization Vol. 23, No. 5-6: 303-323 (2005).
Core Complementarities of the Corporation: Organization of an Innovating Firm. Managerial and Decision Economics Vol. 26: 351-365 (2005).
Managing Knowledge for Innovation: The Case of Business-to-Business Services. Journal of Product Innovation Management Vol. 23, No. 3: 238-258 (2005).
Organization of Knowledge and Innovation: The Case of Finnish Business Services. Industry and Innovation Vol. 12, No. 2: 185-203 (2005).
Organization of Knowledge Exchange: An Empirical Study of Knowledge-Intensive Business Service Relationships. Economics of Innovation and New Technology Vol. 15, No. 4-5: 443-464 (2006).
National styles in the setting of global standards: The relationship between firms standardization strategies and national origin. Pp. 350-372 in How Revolutionary was the Revolution? National Responses, Market Transitions, and Global Technology in the Digital Era by A. Newman and J. Zysman (eds.). Stanford University Press.
Why do firms not collaborate? Competencies, R&D collaboration, and innovation under different technological regimes. Pp. 253-277 in Innovation and firm performance: Econometric explorations of survey data by A. Kleinknecht and P. Mohnen (eds.). London: Palgrave (2002).
Competencies, innovation and profitability of firms. Economics of Innovation and New Technology Vol. 9, No. 1:1-24 (2000).
Working Papers (available upon request)
Competing Through Cooperation: Standard Setting in Wireless Telecommunications. Under second review in Management Science.
Technological Search and the Benefits of Breadth (joint with Constance E. Helfat). Under second review in Strategic Management Journal.
What exactly are technological regimes? Intra-industry heterogeneity in the organization of innovation activities (joint with Ina Drejer). Under second review in Research Policy.
Control of Intellectual Assets in Client Relationships: Implications for Innovation. Under third review in Strategic Management Journal.
When Does Distributed Innovation Make Sense? Location, Decentralization, and Innovation Success (joint with Constance E. Helfat). Under review in Organization Science.
Can't Block, Must Run: Small Firms and Appropriability. Under review in Research Policy.
Cooperative Strategies in the Standardization of Wireless Telecommunications. Under review in Research Policy.
Work in Progress
Collaboration and Networking in Cooperative Standard Setting (joint with Talia Bar).
Value Creation and Capture from Emerging Technologies (joint with Ari Hyytinen and Markku Maula).
Global Engagement and Innovation Performance (joint with Constance Helfat, Jonathan Haskel, and Matthew Slaughter).
Education
Ph.D. (Economics), Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, 2000
M.S. (Economics), Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, 1993