This chapter reviews conceptual frameworks to understand and measure innovation, and then outlines links between … innovation and the concepts of entrepreneurship, the informal economy (IE) and intellectual property (IP). The review suggests … that the time is ripe for African policy-makers to seek more holistic approaches to facilitating innovation and, in turn …

We offer description and analysis of the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey, summarizing the responses of 1,332 U … providing relatively weak incentives for core activities in the innovation process. Our analysis uncovers that the drivers of … also discover that, when choosing not to patent major innovations, startups often cite to cost considerations, although …

innovation and a private sector, for-profit business model that implements the ideas on innovation and entrepreneurship …, primarily in metro regional economies.Radical innovation occurs when technology from two distinct industrial clusters are … crossed, resulting in an entirely new product. In contrast, sustaining innovation usually involves adding technological …

infrastructure in the United States, and they are important as a possible element of our national innovation system. …

Innovation has become a central theme and challenge in the literature of entrepreneurship, SMEs management, and … strategic knowledge management and in the literature of organizational learning. Innovation needs a business environment that is … conducive to long-term investments in new business activities. This way, the development of innovation policy in SMEs forms an …

The role of individual inventors, small firms and entrepreneurs in the patent courts has become controversial for two … patents in cases filed in 2000 and 2002, we explore how the resolution of patent cases relates to the nature of the parties …. In particular, we examine whether individual inventors and entrepreneurs are ability to defend their patent rights and …

We use an exogenous change in German Federal law to examine how entrepreneurial support and the ownership of patent … of patent rights from university researchers to their universities. Based on a novel researcher-level panel database that … increase in start-up companies by university researchers. The shift in patent rights may have strengthened the relationship …

linkages between network embeddedness and innovation activities have been largely explored, the impact on patent quality in … knowledge spillovers, as they serve as central actors of innovation networks and stimulate network activities. Whereas the … of respective institutions within innovation networks thereby reinforces the radicalness of inventions. However, we do …