A popular theory is that it may be sufficiently difficult to reach agreement on patent license terms that holdup in development may occur. Early U.S. radio development is widely believed to provide an empirical example of such holdup during 1905-1920, with numerous allegations of an impasse in...

This report is an account of the relationship between the ERA development and German research and innovation policy (R&I policy). The report introduces what ERA is and how the activities and instruments at European level have fundamentally changed and broadened. It provides a discussion of key...

The service sector has a dominant role in the developed economies, accounting for about two thirds of employment and GDP (Eurostat, 1999). According to Eurostat, "Services are the only sector of the European economy that has generated jobs in the last two decades." Thus, between 1985 and 1997...