1. Fundamentals of Intellectual Property Rights -- 2. Protection Strategies -- 3. Evaluating and Valuing Patents -- 4. Successful Practices in Commercializing Patents -- 5. Organizing Patent Management -- 6. Patent Management by Industry -- 7. Patent Management in New Technology Environments --...

There is growing evidence that firms increasingly adopt open innovation practices. In this paper we investigate the impact of two such external knowledge acquisition strategies, buy and cooperate, on firm's product innovation performance. Taking a direct (productivity) approach, we test for...

Research about users as a source of innovation has been largely restricted to case studies exploring specific innovation projects at the firm level. This study assesses empirically the relationship between external end users’ knowledge as an input factor to innovation and firms’ innovation...

Based on a comprehensive data set comprising 13 countries, 22 industries and a period of 30 years we investigate the impact of internal and external knowledge pools of both green and ‘other than green’ technologies on green patent activities. It turned out that the internal green knowledge...