Innovation has become a central theme and challenge in the literature of entrepreneurship, SMEs management, and … strategic knowledge management and in the literature of organizational learning. Innovation needs a business environment that is … conducive to long-term investments in new business activities. This way, the development of innovation policy in SMEs forms an …

This paper uncovers over 10 central level and over 150 provincial/municipal level patent targets, mostly to be met by … the absence of important criteria for ensuring patent quality. Further, the overly heavy focus on just a few types of … quantitative patent targets (e.g., for patent applications and patents granted) overshadows the type of benchmarking that better …

Although China became the world's leading patent filer in 2011, patent quality is still a serious issue in the country …. This article first provides a statistical snapshot of this situation and then discusses how China's network of patent …-related policies and practices in certain cases actually contributes to this problem and hampers innovation. The article also looks at …

This study’s statistical analysis shows that patent quality and innovation in China deserve improvement, and an in … actually hamper patent quality and innovation in China. Over 50 recommendations for reform are provided. The study is divided … domestically filed patent applications in 2011, the quality of these patents needs improvement. Also, while certain innovation in …

China has a wide-range of patent-specific and other patent-related policies in-place, many of which are at least … partially meant to stimulate patents and “indigenous innovation.” However, the analysis in this paper discusses how some of … innovation. …

homogeneous good. One of the firms (patent holder) develops a cost reduction innovation (drastic or non-drastic) and got a patent … unjust enrichment (UE), both damage rules that are used by courts in the calculation of damages when a patent has been … for this innovation. Under the shadow of probabilistic property rights, It is founded that licensing by using royalty rate …

The prize system for innovation has been criticized as impractical due to the lack of a workable formula or algorithm … can function to duplicate Pareto optimality. Under this system, any bountiable innovation is placed in the public domain …, and the prize of innovation is dynamically amortized in an infinitely time domain as periodic bounties paid to holders of …

The prize system for innovation has been criticized as impractical due to the lack of any workable formula or algorithm … can function to duplicate Pareto optimality. Under this system, any bountiable innovation is placed in the public domain …, and the prize of innovation is dynamically amortized in an infinite time domain as periodic bounties paid to holders of …

The specific characteristics of the R&D system of the modern molecular biotechnology lead to the fact that patent … of cultural and traditional conditions with view to the allocation and usage of property rights, an optimal patent system …