knowledge (know-how and know-who). This paper extends this approach by arguing that the key vectors of innovation and growth lie …

regions within the more general open innovation trend. Using a theoretical framework based on the international business … literature and the regional system of innovation perspective, we estimate a knowledge production function for a sample of 221 … regions from 21 OECD countries with home region patent applications as the dependent variable. Our test supports our …

Most of the studies that describe the building of innovation capability in emerging and developing economies have … pathways followed by firms in their accumulation of innovation capability involved a qualitative departure from the established … of the levels and speeds of the accumulation of innovation capability; (3) firms that have attained progressively higher …

find that the patent system itself is frequently used for defensive publishing. Our findings also challenge contributions … connecting defensive publishing to patent races. …

This study explores how capital markets, exemplified by venture capital, and recent trends in the patent system may … influence innovation activity and the financing of small businesses. Specifically it is evaluated if there are costs and … investigated. It is found that trends at a macro economic level is nowadays of major importance for the patenting and innovation …

through the marketplace, whereas the benefits of systemic innovation are said to be appropriated best by centralised … innovation. The modularised versus systemic architecture approach therefore appears to be a too sweeping dichotomy for describing … what can better be perceived as an array of different practices for balancing innovation contribution with the ability of …