@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2016.0110, TITLE={From ideation to product launch: how IP strategies and work environment can foster innovation}, AUTHOR={Maggy Perrier, Audrey Depeige, }, JOURNAL={Technology and Innovation}, VOLUME={1}, NUMBER={Issue 2}, YEAR={2016}, URL={http://openscience.fr/From-ideation-to-product-launch-how-IP-strategies-and-work-environment-can}, DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2016.0110}, ISSN={2399-8571}, ABSTRACT={This manuscript presents the processes and methods by which an international company, Essilor creates and captures value through its innovations. The article describes the activities and structure of the company, contributing to the improvement of innovation performance, and maintaining its competitive advantage. The competitive environment urges the company to seek various forms of collaborations with other organizations to create, capture, and deliver value (products or services) to spectacle lens wearers, encouraging knowledge-based innovation. In particular, field illustrations show that the company utilizes two sources of access to new technologies, using the networking with other companies in its ecosystem could stimulate the co-development of new products. New forms of partnerships are illustrated by the emergence of an inter-organizational learning and the dissemination of new knowledge, supported by dedicated IP strategies.}}