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 …

Abstract According to the economic theory of patents, patents are needed so that pioneer firm have time to recoup their … recoup, sunk costs. Yet patents are not awarded on the basis of a firm's sunk costs. Patent law, in fact, ignores costs. The … disconnect between patent law and patent theory suggests either that modifying patent law so that it better fits with patent …

managed largely from western firms. This fact has manifold consequences for the innovation behaviour of plants, among others …

Purpose – Apple is a representative company of technological innovation (TI) and management. It has launched new and … success story of Apple's innovation. However, most previous research works on Apple's innovation have been based on … authors aim to study the TI and forecasting of Apple by analyzing its patent applications, which is an objective approach to …

. Research limitations/implications – Limitations of the study include the validity of patents as the sole measure of innovation … globalize the R&D activities. Design/methodology/approach – The study has used the US patents as a surrogate measure for the … technical output from India. The data include all US patents granted between 1992 and 2007 in which at least one inventor was an …

realize value from innovation?”. The legal landscape for patenting in both the USA and Europe will be reviewed, focusing on … the emerging requirements for fast‐paced innovation may impact an organization’s decision to pursue an aggressive …

paper sets out an approach to study the value of patents which looks at the network around the patent. This is a limitation … resource to mobilise towards innovation Originality/value – Typically, research on patents has taken the route via statistical …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse how a patent is an intangible asset and how it creates value. Design …

‐linguistic diversity and national innovativeness. Design/methodology/approach – The researchers used publicly available data on patents and … positively associated with national innovation. More importantly, cultural and intra‐cultural variation measures when taken … together account for significantly greater variance in levels of national innovation than does national culture when measured …