Patent information is an essential ingredient for fostering innovations. Although most of developed countries have been … using patent information as a source of technological information to assist R&D companies and organizations, Tanzania is … lagging behind. Recognizing the critical role of patent information in nurturing innovations, Tanzania has recently engaged in …

Summary This paper analyzes empirically the effects of innovation on employment at the firm level using a uniquely long … introduce different innovation categories. We find clearly positive effects for product and process innovations on employment … growth with the effects for process innovations being slightly higher. For product innovations that involved patent …

article discusses marketing strategy implications of the patent treaties and litigated cases.  …

Innovation” presages changes in the patent system law.  …Are companies effectively protecting new product ideas by using the patent system? Company awareness of the need to use … obtained are discussed, and the necessity for companies to search patent information already in existence is referred to …

While international patent law harmonization has been an issue in progress since the conclusion of the Paris Convention … growing sensitivity to the patent system's social and economic role in society. Inherently, the patent systems should be … country-specific, given the industry-specific character of patent law. However, as the problem of fragmented patent laws …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use a dynamic model of optimal patent design and, in the presence of … earlier-expiring patent only chooses to proceed with R&D activates when the patent it holds expires if the expected discounted … models of patent design, the role of competitive fringe firms is discussed implicitly. The model presented in this research …

perspective, this study examines the impact of search boundary on innovation novelty and quality. Additionally, innovation targets …, namely R&D innovation and application innovation, are proposed as the moderator of the knowledge search effect. Using a … boundary enhances both innovation novelty and innovation quality. For R&D innovation, the positive impact of search boundary on …

Purpose – This paper aims at identifying factors that might affect academic patent activities. It investigates the … universities able to determine the level of patent activity. Design/methodology/approach – Three hypotheses are tested through a … regression analysis, considering various academic variables. Findings – Results demonstrate that the patent activity is mainly …

economies. Design/methodology/approach – The key place of emerging economies in the efforts of established MNEs to seek patent … South Africa both present evidence of MNEs seeking to influence pharmaceutical patent laws, distinct differences emerge. In … India, most MNE pressure has been in response to the emergence of an active domestic industry and a patent law oriented …