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appropriability

noun/əˌprəʊpriəˈbɪləti/

C2CEFR level
95/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

The degree to which a firm can capture the value its own innovation creates rather than see it leak to others.

The tech is brilliant, but with weak appropriability, imitators will harvest most of the upside.

Topic: Strategy in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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