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This article examines the evidence behind claims that innovation is <p> hindered or blocked (termed technology suppression) by <p> corporations’ use of patents. In other words, are there ways in <p> which the exploitation of the exclusive development right of the <p> patent can be shown to retard the...</p></p></p></p>

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On the 1st of January 1993 the territory covered by the European Union member states became the Single European Market (SEM). The political and economic implications of this transformation have been analyzed by many political scientists and economists. Sociologists have been much less interested...

This article investigates whether firms react to a radical technological substitution threat by a deliberate acceleration of innovation in their existing technolgy - the "sailing ship effect". It has been argued that the effect is both significant and widespread and warrants a reexamination of...