The financial literature has revealed that option strategies originate asymmetric return distributions, providing new investment opportunities, especially in the control and reduction of risk. In this way, it is important to evaluate the performance of investment strategies that result from the...

Interactions between firms and universities are key building blocks of innovation systems. This book focuses on those interactions in developing countries, presenting studies based on fresh empirical material prepared by research teams in 12 countries from three continents. The result is a more...

The present paper examines the profile of the Brazilian small and medium technology-based firms (SM-TBF) supported on a survey comprising 136 innovative firms located in five industrial and most innovative areas of the state of São Paulo. Such category of firms constitute an important though...

Analysis of the service sector from the standpoint of clusters is not common in the literature. Such an analysis is a challenge in and of itself, since the service sector covers a broad range of activities, with different market dynamics and trajectories, making generalization difficult. This...