Christian Grube analyses the value potential of patent protection of knowledge-based competitive advantages. His findings show that complex licensing contracts represent a profitable strategy to exploit the value of patented inventions and that bibliographic patent data can support the valuation...

The growing interest in Intellectual Capital management and Knowledge Management is now reaching small companies, especially those in the Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) sector. This paper aims to explore this issue, starting from the assumption that a planned and systematic...

"The management of intangible resources like competence, relationships, brands, processes and systems is of vital importance to creating and maintaining competitive advantage in Business. With technology evolving at the current rate, it can be nearly impossible to keep up and maintain a...