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 …

-statutory (trade secrets, design complexity, and lead-time advantage over competitors) or statutory (patent, design registration …

-sized biotechnology enterprises to protect their intellectual assets by analysing the mediator role of environmental scanning behaviour …/methodology/approach – The hypotheses are tested with survey data from 123 biotechnology SMEs located in fourteen countries. Findings …