This book outlines the unique challenges and opportunities of doing business in Africa, analysing how varying degrees of development across its countries affects entrepreneurship. Taking into account historical and cultural contexts, the authors approach the topic by evaluating the different...

University Startups and Spin-Offs teaches university students, researchers, and educators the most effective strategies and tactics for launching their own startups from academic platforms with the backing of school programs, public grants, incubators, seed accelerators, and private partnerships...

The book investigates the interplay of brand equity and technological assets at the corporate level. In a grounded theory approach it develops a model of how companies in technology intensive industries can improve the appropriation of the returns of their intangible technological assets with...

FuE-, Innovations- und Patentmanagement - Eine Schnittstellenbestimmung -- Technologielebenszyklus-Modelle - Eine kritische Analyse -- Patentstatistische Indikatoren für den Verlauf von Technologielebenszyklen -- Erteilungspraxis bei Patentanmeldungen und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Strategie von...

This book is the revised version of a doctoral thesis written at the Graduiertenkolleg Law and Economics at Hamburg University. It addresses the market failure with respect to R&D for medicines for tropical diseases and the lack of access to affordable medicines in poor countries. Tropical...

Forschungsintensive Industrien wie die Biotechnologie sind geprägt von einer Vielzahl an Kooperationen zwischen etablierten Großunternehmen mit kleinen Partnern. Aber die Misserfolgsraten solcher Vereinbarungen sind trotz einer zunehmenden Kooperationserfahrung der beteiligten Unternehmen...

This book proposes an integrated approach to patent risk and capital budgeting in pharmaceutical research and development (R and D), developing an option-based view (OBV) of imperfect patent protection, which draws upon contingent-claims analysis, stochastic game theory, as well as novel...