international licensing agreements developed with the French Patent office (INPI). As a main result, we highlight a stronger …

To protect intellectual property (IP), organizations use different kinds of mechanisms such as patent, secret or trade … secret (Hannah, 2005; 2007). Patent grants to the holder a temporary monopoly position including the right to sue for … in the industry and that the firm makes an effort to protect” (Fosfuri and Rønde, 2004: 46). Unlike patent relies on …

Network industries are now characterized by a regime of permanent innovation, while they continue to be fixed and sunk …

based on innovation. Private equity activity is in this regard a better mode of financing innovative enterprises added to …

correlated to the size of investment of the innovation projects and the level of seniority is positively associated to the most … innovative projects. The seniority of champions explains positively the innovation success, but the hierarchical level has no …

-statutory (trade secrets, design complexity, and lead-time advantage over competitors) or statutory (patent, design registration … relates to the type of innovation, the characteristics of the market sector in which they operate, the firms’ characteristics …