A long stream of academic literature has established that public funding towards research and development matters for economic growth because it relates to increases in innovation, productivity and the like. The impact of public funding on the creation of new firms has received less attention in...

As the pipeline of new biotech crops has continued to expand, regulatory approvals of such crops across different countries have become less synchronized. As a result, some biotech crops can be cultivated in one or more countries but may not be approved for use in others. Under such...

We examine how clients and suppliers govern vertical relationships for knowledge work. Collocation - having supplier personnel interact with the client’s personnel and systems at the client's site - is a contractual mechanism that facilitates coordination for knowledge co-creation. Using a...