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Msc Thesis Irausquin Eindhoven University of Technology MASTER Operationalizing servitization using trademark indicators a quantitative study of service theories Irausquin, C.L. Award date: 2020 Link to publication Disclaimer This document contains a student thesis (bachelor's or master's), as authored by a student at Eindhoven University of Technology. Student theses are made available in the TU/e repository upon obtaining the required degree. The grade received is not published on the document as presented in the repository. The required complexity or quality of research of student theses may vary by program, and the required minimum study period may vary in duration. General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences Operationalizing servitization using trademark indicators: A quantitative study of service theories Collin L. Irausquin 0925136 Supervisors: Dr. Elena Mas Tur Dr. Carolina Castaldi Prof. Floor Alkemade Master of Science in Innovation Sciences Eindhoven, October 2019 Keywords: Trademarks, servitization, hybrid services, keyword analysis, outcome-based contracts, measuring products and services, intellectual property, product-service ratios, Nice classifications, manufacturing service trends ii Acknowledgements Completing this thesis would not have been possible without the help of my two mentors, Elena Mas Tur and Carolina Castaldi. Their advice and guidance have helped tremendously in the writing process. At times when writing this manuscript seemed like a Sisyphean task, they gave me the right tools on how to proceed. I am extremely thankful for all the time they have spent reading my drafts and their patience when providing feedback. I also would like to thank Floor Alkemade for reviewing this thesis as the third reader. Besides the academic support I received from my mentors, I was also supported by my family and friends. Without their emotional support, critical questions and, especially, their humor have helped every step of the way in finishing this manuscript. In particular, I want to thank my sister, Demi, who has served as both a model of hard work which I aspire to reach, and as a buttress that helps me stand firmly in my shoes. Her endless amounts of energy both perplex and inspire me to always try to go the extra mile. Without her as a guide, this thesis, my studies and goals would be completely different. To my parents, who both separately and together have helped me shape the foundation that I stand on. I thank my mother, Rixa, without seeing her hard work, reliability and character I am not sure if I would have had the right building blocks in my development. Without her, this family would have great difficulty completing the simplest of tasks. She is both the anchor of the family and the compass that guides it forward. My father, Ronald, could not be a better role model. By following his model, I have been able to reach feats that I thought were impossible for me. His protean character and knowledge on seemingly every subject have supported me with every step in my journey. The heights I have achieved I cannot attribute wholly to myself. It is because I could reach further by standing on the shoulders of these two giants. Finally, I would like to thank my grandfather, Luis Guillermo, or, as everyone lovingly calls him, Opa Boy. He has perfected the act of calling in the most inconvenient of times and turned it into an art. I always happily take these calls because the richness in advice and humor always become the highlight of my day. These calls have served as one of the greatest motivators to work hard on this thesis. Because, answering “No” to the question “Have you worked on your thesis today?” would inevitably lead to an interrogation to see when I do in fact study. As one of the most magnanimous men I have i ever known, he has been a lodestar in my life. I hope in the next call I am able to tell him that this thesis is finally finished. ii Summary The aim of this thesis is to answer the research question “Are the product and service portfolios of firms, as measured by trademarks, in line with the servitization patterns predicted by current literature?” To answer this question, firstly, an overview of current trends is created by conducting a literature review. From this literature review, four concrete trends are identified from the literature. These trends are as follows: Firstly, depending on the stage of development of a firm or sector, their service portfolios will fluctuate between three types of service offerings (smoothing, adapting and substituting services) (Cusumano, Kahl, & Suarez, 2015). These service types reflect the maturity of the industry and the required auxiliary services needed to help with the adoption of new products by customers. The second trend from literature concerns the servitization continuum (Bustinza, Vendrell-Herrero, & Baines, 2017; Kowalkowski, Gebauer, Kamp, & Parry, 2017a). The servitization continuum explains how firms offer more services over time as they mature. Therefore, younger firms are expected to offer more products in the beginning of their lifecycle and as they mature the offerings of the firm will include more services. The third trend is deservitization, meaning that mature firms pass a certain boundary that their offerings will, once again, go from services to products (Kowalkowski, Gebauer, Kamp, et al., 2017a) The final trend is the growth of “hybrid services” (Bustinza et al., 2017; Cusumano et al., 2015; Visnjic, Jovanovic, Neely, & Engwall, 2017; Visnjic, Ringov, & Arts, 2019; Weking, Brosig, Böhm, Hein, & Krcmar, 2018). Hybrid services in this case entail services that replace products. An example of a hybrid service is the leasing out of equipment to users. In this example, the user is not the owner of the equipment but can use the product as a service. Through the literature review, shortcomings in previous methods are also identified. In quantitative methods for example, there is no clear definition of how to measure servitization and measures used in studies are not consistent, even when measuring the same phenomena (Calabrese, Levialdi Ghiron, Tiburzi, Baines, & Ziaee Bigdeli, 2019). In quantitative measures, this thesis shows how the research has been focused on a handful of specific sectors and firms. To measure the trends identified above, a suitable indicator is needed. As proposed by Castaldi (2018), trademarks can be utilized as an indicator to measure services and their characteristics. Trademarks use a standardized classification system, the Nice Classification, to subdivide them up into different product-service categories. These iii categories range from chemical products to IT services. The Nice Classification therefore, also indicates if a trademark is either a product or service. The use of trademarks are becoming more important due to the increased focus of intangible assets such as brands and names in products and services (Mendonça & Mamede, 2014; Vargo & Lusch, 2004). To answer the research question, the identified trends from the literature are tested using trademarks from the United States Patent & Trademark Office database. Because the trends from the literature review were identified for specific sectors, the same sectors were included in this thesis’ analysis. This is done to see if the observed trends indeed are present in the sectors. The sectors are namely, the software, hardware and technology, automobiles and parts, and aerospace and defense sectors. The timeframe chosen for this analysis is from the year 1980 until 2017. Using this timeframe, 12,190,873 trademarks are analyzed. Furthermore, a list of the top ranked R&D firms and the entire dataset is used to see how the most innovative firms and the whole market have developed over the same timeframe. Besides the Nice Classification system, keyword analysis is used to supplement the categorization of trademarks. Keyword analysis identifies specific words in the trademark. If the keyword matches a word used in the trademark, the trademark is sorted into a particular category. By identifying relevant words which describe a certain service, these words can be used to further narrow down the types of services. Keyword analysis is done to identify the three service types from the literature review, which allows one to see trends concerning these services. Besides focusing on the number of services offered, it is also important to identify the diversity of services, or the degree of servitization. By using both the Nice Classifications and keyword-based categories, the degree of servitization can also be measured by looking at the different categories of services in the data. Furthermore, keyword analysis is also used to identify the top ranked R&D firms in the database by matching the trademark owner name. By conducting the analysis, one can compare and contrast the observations for the different sectors. By comparing the top ranked firms to the whole market trend, one can see that the entire market offers more services and have increased their use of services more than top ranked firms. This shows that there is a servitization effect on these two units of analysis. The difference of the servitization rate for the top ranked firms might be due to R&D being used to create innovative new products instead of trying to add services to old products. This is a possible explanation of why top ranked R&D firms remain focused on products when compared to the entire market.
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