The battle for patent rights / Dietmar Harhoff -- Intellectual property, competition and the value of UK firms … property rights induce more patents? / Sung Jin Kang and Hwan Joo Seo -- What is different about innovation in Asia? / Arnoud … / Christine Greenhalgh and Mark Rogers -- Business method patents and venture capital investment decisions / Robert H. Pitkethly …

techniques to explore the complex relationship between patents, innovation, venture capital and scientific research. The book … focuses on three broad issues: the valuation of patents, the transfer of knowledge, and the management of innovation and …. It focuses on three particular issues: the valuation of patents, the transfer of knowledge, and the management of …

An introduction to innovation and policy / Louise Earl and Fred Gault -- What do we know about innovation and socio …-economic change? : lessons from the TEARI Project / Jan Fagerberg -- The role of benchmarks and targets in Canadian innovation policy … / Surendra Gera, Richard Roy and Thitima Songsakul -- Innovation in enterprise clusters : evidence from Dutch manufacturing …

policies for innovation and idea diffusion, including studies on Japan and the European Union.The second part takes a critical … health improvement, examining the TRIPS agreement and the European patent system.The third part focuses on the role of … foreign direct investment in innovation and idea diffusion, with studies on a wide range of cases using different, novel data …