There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software …

about open access must include a discussion about research infrastructure and innovation in academic publishing. …

Innovation is increasingly seen as a collective action which involves many different actors operating in a cluster … important tool to study innovation, but the globalisation of companies and markets and the specific requirements of innovation … and virtual cluster links improves access to essential resources in innovation. An examples taken from the automotive …

Using the 2007 Mannheim innovation survey, we investigate whether family firms are more financially constrained than … other firms and how this affects both innovation input as well as innovation outcomes such as market and firm novelties or … are more likely to be constrained and have, on average, lower innovation input. Surprisingly, however, this doesnot reduce …

&D locations is no reason for concern regarding the perceived hollowing-out of the national innovation systems. Indeed, since the … advantages built at home are at the core of both the HBA and HBE strategies, the national system of innovation in the home …

particular emphasis on product quality, innovation and skills. The firm-level case studies support the conclusions arising from … and innovation arising from UK R&D is of a high but, compared to their German counterparts, UK firms often fail to …