Aldona Kapačinskaitė

Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Strategy at INSEAD. I hold a PhD in Strategy and Entrepreneurship from London Business School.

My research examines how firms capture the value they create through competitive and intellectual property strategies. I focus on how changes in appropriability and competitive environments shape firms' strategies for investing and controlling proprietary information, including the generation and use of trade secrets, investments in new technologies, and the timing of product launches and updates. My ongoing work spans industry studies in the energy sector, digital platforms, and medical devices, as well as cross-industry settings.

My research has been published or is forthcoming in Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, and the Strategic Management Journal, and has been recognized by the SMS Research in Strategic Management Award as well as the Strategy Research Foundation Dissertation Award. My dissertation won the TIM Division Best Dissertation Award and was a finalist for the STR Division Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award. I was also a Thomas Edison Innovation Law and Policy Fellow at the Center for Intellectual Property and Innovation Policy.

I currently serve on the Editorial Review Board of Organization Science.

I hold a double MSc in Economics and Public Policy from École Polytechnique and Sciences Po Paris. Prior to joining academia, I held research roles at Google and the European Commission and had my own consulting practice.