, emphasizes knowledge as an economic object and, more generally, the economics of intellectual property rights. This paper argues …

potential suppliers generate and sell the most suitable innovation. Moreover, procurement by public agencies and large firms … consider a menu of procurement methods and policies for best procuring new knowledge and innovative products, discussing their … the degree of competition between suppliers, as well as other more practical indirect ways to stimulate innovation. We …

We study how complementarities and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main …

least as innovative as their larger counterparts poses something of a paradox. Where do small firms get their knowledge … identification of the extent to which spillovers exist between major sources generating new knowledge, such as the R&D laboratories … more important for small-firm innovation than for their larger counterparts. …

This paper aims at showing how the Research and innovation Act of July 1999 modifies (stimulates?) the role of the … of firms profit from these devices? Do the structures of support for innovation at the regional level deploy their … example the case of Auvergne, we will seek to show in what sense the organisational mode of the innovation which prevails …

This paper surveys recent findings about how the financial markets value the knowledge assets of publicly traded firms …. The motivation for using market value equation to price knowledge assets is discusssed and the theory behind this equation … corporation is strongly related to its knowledge assets, and that the patent measures contain information about this value above …

This paper looks at the genesis of innovation in the United States from a territorial perspective. The analysis aims to … disentangle the impact of local R&D expenditure from other contextual conditions supportive of the process of innovation …. Particular emphasis is devoted to the role of socio-economic factors and systems of innovation conditions (‘social filter …

option of selling to an incumbent increases innovation incentives for entrepreneurs when network effects are strong and … necessarily restrict innovation incentives. We also show that network effects promote acquisitions over entry and that the … entrepreneur has strong incentives to invest in the initial user base of the innovation. …