The debate on whether COVID-19 vaccine patents are slowing down the pace of vaccination and the recovery from the crisis has brought the optimal design of pharmaceutical patent policy to the fore. In this paper we evaluate patent policy in the US pharmaceutical industry. We estimate the effect...

The importance of entrepreneurship as a driving force in the economic development has been widely recognised. Respectively, a growing number of empirical studies have focused on explaining variation in entrepreneurial activity at various spatial levels with the majority of them taking either a...

Die Innovationsfähigkeit gewinnt durch die Globalisierung des Wettbewerbs zunehmend an Bedeutung. Dabei kommt den Metropolregionen eine wichtige Rolle zu. Die Autoren haben sechs deutsche Metropolregionen und aussagekräftige Innovationsindikatoren ausgewählt und untersuchen, welche dieser...

The 'doing-using-interacting mode' of innovation (DUI) is considered an important component of innovative activity. It describes informal innovative activities and thus complements the 'science-technology-innovation mode' (STI) based on research and development. While empirical measurement of...

The aim of the study was to determine the significance of the use of probit modelling which was a helpful tool to determine the significance of effects to innovative activity, in particular investments in innovations and implementation of new solutions . The main hypothesis of this paper is the...

The 'doing-using-interacting mode' of innovation (DUI) is considered an important component of innovative activity. It describes informal innovative activities and complements the 'science-technology-innovation mode' (STI) which is based on research and development. A common demarcation...