This paper builds on original work undertaken as part of a team of researchers into Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs), defined as a systematic risk assessment tool that can be usefully integrated into decision-making processes. The team were commissioned by the UK Information Commissioner’s...

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can makeuse of patent information (such as detailed technical descriptions ofinventions and inventors' and applicants' names) in various ways.Thediscussion is based primarily on a 1997 study of United Kingdom-based SMEs. Surveys were received from 390...

The resource-based view of information was central to the development of an “information economy.” It was economists such as Machlup (1962) and Porat (1977) who pioneered the idea of an “information economy.” Cooper (1983, p. 12) identified Machlup as the first proponent of an...