In most countries in Europe, where universities have primarily been financed through block grants, governments have introduced or increased the amount of funding distributed through competitive funding schemes…
We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their organizational processes and structures. Starting from complexity theory, we use three consecutive…
Concentrating on sustainable patenting as an indicator for inventions in sustainable, green technologies, this study first presents the overall development in sustainable patenting at the European Patent…
The European Commission has launched a study on the production and trade in KETs-based products. This report is the final background report that constitutes the basis for the chapter on Key Enabling Technologies…
The effectiveness of patents to stimulate R&D is often limited. If innovation is sequential and complementary, patent protection may even stifle technical advance (Bessen and Maskin, 2006). The surge of…
