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Research the history of RIM, specifically with an eye toward product development. Answering to the following questions: What were some of the challenges that RIM faced to protect its intellectual property, and how did RIM handle those challenges? What were some of the industry factors that influenced RIM? Apply as many TCOs as you can to the RIM. Given a company situation be able to determine whether and how to protect its technological innovations. Focus on the key concepts: Key Concepts: Increase students understanding of why a dominant design emerges and why it is not always the most technological superior design that becomes dominant. Determine the primary sources of increasing returns and network externalities. Analyze a multidimensional model for assessing the value of a technology to buyers in order to determine the potential demand. Evaluate if 'winner-take-all' markets are good for consumers. Develop an understanding of the mechanisms a firm has available to protect an innovative technology, the means by which the mechanisms can be put into effect and their limitations. Include the following book as one of the two reference: Strategic Management of Technological Innovation 3rd Edition by Melissa A. Schilling © 2010 McGraw-Hill Irwin Dedline is 22 Jan 12 @ 10 a.m. source..

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RIM (Research in Motion) is a company which started small but today twenty five years after its inception it has grown to become one of the leading global designers, markers and manufacturers of applications and solutions for the mobile phone market. RIM through integrating and developing services, software and hardware has managed to come up with quality products that have won numerous awards such as BlackBerry platform, radio modems, BackBerry hand held and licensing agreement. Research in Motion is a company that was founded in 1984 by engineering students such as Mike Lazaridis from the University of Waterloo and Douglas Fregin from the University of Windsor. In 1988 RIM become the pioneering company in development of data technology in Canada and the entire North America, and was also the first corporation to develop telecommunication products for Mobitex. In 1990 RIM was the first company to introduce DigiSync reader into the market, while in 1991 the company introduced MPC (Mobitex Protocol Converter) (Koplyay, 2003, p. 5).
During the nineties the company came up with a series of technologies that changed the telecommunication industry. In 1993 RIM invented RIMGate, in 1994 the company introduced MPT (mobile point of sale terminal), while in 2000 the company introduced BlackBerry which could support voice and data. The company in 2003 also entered into cooperation with other companies which saw the introduction of BlackBerry licensing program. In the subsequent years the company continued to develop various technologies including the famous BlackBerry technology which by 2004 had more than two million subscrib...

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