Inxight: Incubating a Xerox Technology Spinout

Henry W. Chesbrough, Christina Darwall

Xerox has established a new spinoff that utilizes software technology developed at its PARC research facility. This spinoff, Inxight Software, is formulating its plans to commercialize PARC's technology via an OEM component business model.

Learning Objective

To examine alternative organization structures to commercialize research and development; internal and quasi-external incentives, authority, and decision making.

Details

Pub Date: Dec 17, 1998

Discipline: Operations Management

Subjects: Applications, R&D, Spin-offs, Technology

Source: Harvard Business School

Product #: 699019-PDF-ENG

Teaching note; Available

Industry: Computers & electronics, Software publishing

Geography: United States

Length: 13 page(s)