Drawing on the reputation literature and signaling theory, this article builds on work that looks at patents as reputation signals. We build a multi-industry database of patents that expire due to lack of maintenance fee payments and test for a relationship between these patents and the firm’s...

This preliminary investigation into 4th pillar organizations in Canada was commissioned by the Prime Minister’s Advisory Council on Science and Technology in July 2005. It represents a first effort to characterize 4th pillar organizations on a conceptual level and to estimate the nature and...

Based on the achievements of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in medicine, and the need for effective government interventions in support of business, some have advocated for the use of RCTs in the evaluation of business support programmes (BSPs). Notwithstanding these recommendations, the...

Books reviewed: Michael A. Hitt, Raphael Amit, Charles E. Lucier and Robert D. Nixon - Creating Value - Winners in the New Business Environment Michael A. Hitt, R. Edward Freeman and Jeffrey S Harrison (eds.) - The Blackwell Handbook of Strategic Management OECD Proceedings - Innovative Networks...

Government and nonprofit innovation intermediaries that work to enable the innovativeness of firms include R&D performers such as government research institutes, property-based enablers such as science parks and business incubators, technology transfer offices, economic development...

In the interests of providing government policy makers and research managers with an appreciation of the scope, findings, and value of the academic literature, and of facilitating policy making that is informed by evidence, we conduct a systematic review of the recent academic literature on the...