Roy Levien is among the all-time most prolific

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s in the world as measured by U.S utility patents, with over 737 issued and more than 1,260 US

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. He is also the recipient of the

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Chairman's Award from

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in 1990 for his work on

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and the foundations of ActiveX. Levien co-authored the book ''The Keystone Advantage: What the New Dynamics of Business Ecosystems Mean for Strategy, Innovation, and Sustainability''.''The Keystone Advantage'' OCLC 54372524
/ref> Levien received an M.A. in Biology from

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, an A.B. in Applied Mathematics from

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, and has attended the doctoral programs at the Harvard Business School and Cornell's department of Neurobiology and Behavior.

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