David J. Teece

Distinguished Scholar of Strategy and Innovation

University of South Florida

David J. Teece is Distinguished Scholar of Strategy and Innovation at the University of South Florida, and Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the world’s most sited scholar in the field of business and management. He has authored over thirty books and two hundred scholarly papers and has been cited more than 250,000 times, per Google Scholar. Dr. Teece has long been dedicated to the economic and strategic value provided by intellectual capital and IP rights.

Recent Articles by David J. Teece

AI is Raising the Stakes on Intellectual Capital and IP Rights

For decades, management scholars and practitioners have grappled with what I call the “knowledge problem” in organizations—the stubborn difficulty of codifying and transferring expertise that resides in individual employees’ heads and habits. The most valuable organizational knowledge has always been tacit: the judgment calls, the contextual adaptations, the intuitive “feel” for how things get done. This knowledge walked out the door every evening and, more problematically, departed permanently when employees moved to competitors.

April 13, 2026

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