Innovating science and technology-based firms often endure a sustained period of uncertain intellectual property rights (IPR) protection before patents could be granted to their valuable knowledge assets. This problem is exacerbated, as firms increasingly develop their innovations or operate in...

In this paper the relationship between the pursuit of foreign patent rights by inventors or their assignees and economic development in the countries in which the respective inventors reside is examined. Outward-bound international patenting is contrasted with domestic patenting and with...

This paper explores the integration of emerging countries into the global system of innovation, as a channel for their technological catch-up. Using data on the innovative activity in the Chinese pharmaceutical industry, we analyze the geographic dispersion of inventor networks linked to China,...

The drug discovery and development are very expensive, risky and time consuming. It requires several years and billions of dollars for developing a drug to the marketplace. Hence, smaller biotech companies seek to out-license or develop their drugs in collaboration with large pharmaceutical...

This paper contemplates the future relationship between open-source licenses and capital markets, discussing the impact of new media technologies on transparency in finance, with an emphasis on Financial Explorer, a new tool put forth by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that allows...

The articles discusses the management of the cultural diversity in Indonesian archipelago by incorporating the web 2.0 and participatory database documentation system. Things related to the reports and researches that have been brought related to the on going collecting data is discussed,...

A great deal has been said in recent years about patent disclosure. But to say that there is a disclosure function in the patent system implies that there is non-disclosure functioning in the patent system as well. For some information to be disclosed in a patent, other information must go...

This paper attempts to elucidate upon the current changes in the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry (IPI) brought about by the product patent regime 2005. The study relates the concept of strategic leadership as a source of competitive advantage for the firm in an industry where science and...