In the long history of monopolies, business method patents are a novel and recent edition. In the Digital Age, where … method patents in Australia in light of the 2006 decision of the Full Court of the Federal Court in Grant v Commissioner of … Patents,5 which confirmed the need in Australia for a 'useful product' to issue from the working of a method (business or …

, finance, strategic human resource management, R&D management and innovation, knowledge management, organisational values and … culture, and many more. To support innovation and R&D on a strategic level, both internally and on inter-firm collaborations …, requires a review of the total organisational strategy, culture and norms in an organisation. Innovation and R&D support should …

nature innovative. Therefore generating a culture of innovation is a vital requirement in the development of a successful … designer. Do we know how to stimulate, incubate and nurture innovation? What are the factors that give rise to an innovative … success. However on review the programme was deemed to be lacking in innovation. Changes were made and after three years the …

focus of innovation (IP Generation) and IP ownership and licensing (IP Rights). However, further management practice …

individual agents appropriate returns from innovation and how is this affected by the availability (or not) of intellectual … property rights such as copyrights and patents? Second, how does this translate into the aggregate production of knowledge …

Using novel data on European firms, this paper investigates the relationship between business groups and innovation … group affiliation is particularly important for innovation in industries that rely more on external funding and in groups … knowledge spillovers are not the main driver of innovation in business groups because firms affiliated with the same group do …

, United Kingdom, and United States). Byusing patents and patent citations at the United States Patent and Trademark Office we …, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico, suggest that internationalknowledge spillovers from the G-5 countries are a significant …

technological innovation performance of Chinese domestic firms as measured by the number of patents awarded to firms in 30 Chinese … patents from patents awarded to universities and research institutes. The dependent variable for regression analysis is the … positive factors in the domestic firms technological innovation performance. While the net impact of FDI on domestic firms …

Innovation comprises the processes of invention and commercialization. While the importance of innovation, especially … innovation and, in particular, builds on the evolutionary explanation of technology development, the Teecian framework on … profiting from innovation, Transaction Cost Economics (TCE), the Knowledge-Based View (KBV), and open innovation and innovation …

competition. Innovation has become the common goal of all economic entities, being the way for a company to achieve something …