We investigate the effect of quality of patents on the market value of firms represented by the Tobin's q. We consider the number of objections as well as the number of citations. We construct the database of patent stock, citation-weighted patent stock and objection-weighted patent stock. Our...

By using accounting data from the largest utility companies of Europe, this note illustrates the recent R&D performance in energy and telecommunication. Although not all the companies under consideration behaved symmetrically, most of them reduced substantially their R&D investment. Over the...

Software is the essential enabler for the new society. It creates new markets and new directions for a more reliable, flexible, and robust society. This paper presents a new trend and theory in the direction in which we believe software science and engineering may develop to transform the role...

The main objective of the financial appraisal of an innovation project is to measure the rentability of those projects. The financial appraisal of an innovation project is similary to investment projects at short level. But on the other side, it has certain features due to its main...

In an R&D-driven growth model with asymmetric fundamentals the steady state equilibrium R&D investments are industry-specific and they are such that R&D returns are equalized across industries. Return equalization, however, makes investors indifferent as to where to target research and, hence,...

We study a game of strategic experimentation with two-armed bandits where the risky arm distributes lump-sum payoffs according to a Poisson process. Its intensity is either high or low, and unknown to the players. We consider Markov perfect equilibria with beliefs as the state variable. As the...

E-commerce as an aggregation of activities concerning trading and rendering service to customers using internet is important for firms of all size to preserve competitiveness in global markets However, introduction of e-commerce means also introduction of new business models. To incorporate new...

No presente trabalho de investigação (working paper) pretendemos analisar o enquadramento das políticas públicas no âmbito da inovação aberta (open innovation), tendo como referência geográfica e política a União Europeia. A linha de investigação apresentada neste documento irá...