information goods, based on von ippel's user-as-innovator principle (1988): as users benefit from innovation, they have incentive … to produce it, and as they can expect cumulative innovation on their own proposition, they have incentive to share it …

Purpose - The objective of this research is to identify and characterize the coordination systems used by SME hub firms … hub firm size. Design/methodology/approach - Seven case studies were carried out: six innovation networks in which SMEs …' qualitative empirical analysis of seven innovation projects showed that: the sharing of benefits and the guarantees that are …

R&D and innovation have become much more strategic than ever before for the growth of China as well as for its global … societal upgrade. The Chinese authorities have designed an innovation strategy to face new economic and social challenges. The …

firms. This is evident from their technological performance, and innovation and patenting intensity. This structural … tendency is explained as an innovative behaviour in the French national innovation system rather than merely a 'trend'. …

this paper on innovation in genomics and biomedical related biotechnologies is to study the relative impact of the …. This new scientific space has been complementary to the public policy, but only to a certain extend. By studying the co-ordination …

competition on R&D to the cost of innovation. The effect of competition on R&D is an inverted U-shape. However, the shape is … flatter and competition policy is therefore less relevant for innovation when innovations are relatively costly. Intuitively …, if innovations are costly for a firm, competitive shocks have to be significant to alter its innovation decisions …

This paper explores which patent policy should be applied to complementary innovations that are aggregated into broader …

We provide new insights into the role of individual inventors in innovation. We focus our analysis on prolific … inventors in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. We analyse patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to thousands of …

The paper investigates the patterns of persistence of innovation and of the properties of firms' knowledge base (KB …