Basic innovations are often fundamental to the development of applications that maybe developed by other innovators. In this setting, we investigate whether patent pools canrectify the lack of incentives for developers to invest in applications. Following Green andScotchmer (1995), we also...

The paper reports the views of key policy makers in Industrial South Wales (ISW) who wereinterviewed in the Spring 1999 concerning SMEs and technology transfer networks. A semistructuredinterview procedure was followed involving the use of an interview handbooksupported by interview lists...