Justin Heinonen, Jeremy Wilson and A-CAPP Center Staff, 2010 The Need for Data on Product Counterfeiting Despite the staggering economic, health and safety effects of product counterfeiting, there are few evidence‐based lessons on the problem. A major reason there is so little systematic research on product counterfeiting is that reliable data are typically non‐existent or …
Justin Heinonen and Jeremy Wilson, 2011 The creation of a product counterfeiting database highlights variation in known incidents of counterfeit pharmaceuticals across several important dimensions. By understanding how these incidents differ, researchers can provide empirical insights into the problem, develop evidence-based anti-counterfeit strategy and promote awareness to consumers, government and industry. This complex form of …
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Jeremy Wilson and Justin Heinonen, 2011 The creation of a national product counterfeiting incident database allows researchers a unique opportunity to generate evidence-based anti-counterfeiting strategy through the analysis of data and evidence. Integrating the tenets of crime prevention theory and problem analysis, it employs a systematic process to identify U.S.-related incidents of product counterfeiting across …
Justin Heinonen, John Spink and A-CAPP Center Staff, 2012 The crime of product counterfeiting is growing in scope, scale, and threat. These threats impact Michigan residents, as they do others throughout the U.S. and the world. This Backgrounder presents results of a survey that questioned residents on their purchases of counterfeit products, their opinions on …
Justin Heinonen and Jeremy Wilson, 2012 Product counterfeiting represents a range of criminal activities associated with intellectual property rights infringement of material goods. Virtually, any product, from pharmaceuticals and food to auto parts and electronics, can be counterfeited. Although the precise extent of product counterfeiting is not known, by most accounts the problem is substantially …
John Spink and Justin Heinonen, 2012 The crime of product counterfeiting is growing in scope, scale, and threat. These threats impact Michigan residents, as they do others throughout the U.S. and the world. This Backgrounder presents results of a survey that questioned residents on their purchases of counterfeit products, their opinions on priorities for law …
Justin Heinonen, John Spink and Doug Moyer, 2012 This article was published in Packaging World Magazine. Subscription may be required to view publication. 2012 Copyright Michigan State University Board of Trustees. To read the full publication, click here.
Jeremy Wilson, Justin Heinonen and Thomas Holt, 2012 The growing pace of e-commerce has facilitated the sale and distribution of counterfeit products. One reason may be that consumers cannot fully validate goods for sale online, thus creating tremendous opportunities for fraud. Despite the growth of online product counterfeiting specifically, little research has examined this crime …
Rod Kinghorn, David Dryfus and Justin Heinonen, 2013 Supply chain management can be the first step for preventing product counterfeiting. This Backgrounder addresses how stakeholders in a supply chain can mitigate and prevent this crime by moving towards a more comprehensive purchasing strategy. A typical supply chain is comprised of a network of a brand …
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Jeremy Wilson, Thomas Holt and Justin Heinonen, 2013 The growing pace of e-commerce has facilitated the sale and distribution of counterfeit products. Yet little remains known about victims of counterfeit products sold on-line. We use 2009 and 2010 complainant data from the Internet Crime Complaint Center to examine the characteristics, costs, and reporting of product …
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