invention or innovation cannot be guaranteed. Our main aim is to examine the relationship between business R&D expenditure …, invention and innovation in the long-run. We also examine the level of business R&D expenditure in EU countries. The long …The paper deals with the problem of business spending on research and development and their relation to innovation …

in it, drawing a portrait of contemporary capitalism in which the grip of law threatens the pioneers of innovation … for postgraduate students and researchers of the economics of innovation and IP law. Its original empirical analysis will … also prove insightful to industrial economists, policymakers, IP lawyers and innovation managers in cultural and creative …