A decade after their introduction, approximately three-quarters of a million European Registered Community Designs (RCDs) have been filed, and recent court cases suggest firms regard them as important for competition. This paper reviews design protection in the European Union, discusses this...

The service sector has a dominant role in the developed economies, accounting for about two thirds of employment and GDP (Eurostat, 1999). According to Eurostat, "Services are the only sector of the European economy that has generated jobs in the last two decades." Thus, between 1985 and 1997...

Design is of key importance to the UK economy, with £33.5billion spent on design in 2008. This importance prompted the IPO to commission a set of research projects around design rights which has been produced in four chapters.The second chapter looks at the impact registered design rights have...

This paper examines the responses from Creative Industries Organisations (CIOs), 89% of which were firms, to the DCMS’s 2020 survey on new product and service development activities. The findings show that, perhaps contrary to expectations, many CIOs engage in research and development (R&D),...

This paper uses official statistics published by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to examine the regional distribution of the Creative Industries by employment and economic output. While the Creative Industries have become a substantial sector within the UK economy, there are...

Books reviewed in this article: Dengjian Jin - The Dynamics of Knowledge Regimes: Technology, Culture and Competitiveness in the USA and Japan Chrisanthi Avgerou and Renata Lebre La Rovere (eds.) - Information Systems and the Economics of Innovation John T. Scott - Environmental Research and...