Aus dem Vorwort: Diese Arbeit will den technischen Informationsnutzen von Patenten aus der Sicht kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen kritisch hinterfragen. Am Ende dieser Studie, in der Mitarbeiter der beteiligten Unternehmen in einem organisatorischen und technischen Kontext mit ausgewählten...

Research and development is no longer a headquarters function. More and more companies internationalize their ¤R& D activities. The pros and cons of this approach are discussed in this book. The organizational alternatives for inter¤national R&D as well as the consequences that they have for...

The topic of the dissertation is the relationship between knowledge spillovers and firms' likelihood to co-operate on R&D and innovation activities. The analysis contains two parts: A review of relevant theoretical and empirical literature and an empirical part that analyses the relationship...