The relationship between innovation and the patent system is examined. To investigate the ways in which small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make use of the patent system, two mail surveys were conducted in 1996. The sample included 687 manufacturing SMEs in the United Kingdom and 218 UK...

In 1999, the Department of Trade and Industry in London commissioned a literature review of, and commentary on, the productivity paradox in information technology. This paper is derived from that report. The authors find that the discussion of the productivity paradox took place largely in the...