The debate over the role of strong IP rights for developing countries has been and continues to be heated among academic and policymaker circles. Bulgaria's experience since shedding communism offers interesting insights into this debate by providing a window into the part that IP rights can...

This study surveys the current state of affairs in Poland with regard to the development of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship (KIE), or new firm creation in industries considered to be science-based or to use research and development (R&D) intensively. We place KIE in Poland in the larger...

Using a unique firm-level dataset this study shows that foreign investors in transition economies are characterized by low, rather than high, R&D intensity. It also finds that investors with higher R&D spending are more likely to engage in non-manufacturing projects than in local production. The...

The development and exploitation of intellectual property, and participation in the global information economy, are not dependent upon geography. It can take place from anywhere, from the inside of an empty factory in Detroit, to a small country road, nestled between the rhododendron and the...