Purpose This study investigates the extent to which a company's usage of open access (OA) literature for R&D activities depends on its size. The authors' assumption is that smaller pharmaceutical companies have less access to (usually expensive) journal subscriptions. Design/methodology/approach...

In this paper, we empirically explain how scientific knowledge assimilated from academia affects corporate performance, particularly in the pharmaceutical industry of Japan. We use balanced panel data on 46 pharmaceutical firms in Japan for the period 1992–2005. Then, we introduce a new...

The aim of this mainly methodological paper is to present an approach for researching the triple helix of university-industry-government relations as a heterogeneous and multilayered communication network. The layers included are: the formal scholarly communication in academic journals, the...