Electronic publishers manage their intellectualproperty in an environment that appears to foster illegitimate competition,particularly piracy.The characteristics of digital technology thatfacilitate copyright infringement are outlined includingthe proliferationof powerful home and business...

Funding agencies and large public scientific institutions are increasingly using the term “research portfolio” as a means of characterising their research. While portfolios have long been used as a heuristic for managing corporate R&D (i.e., R&D aimed at gaining tangible economic benefits),...

There is a widespread perception that pharmaceutical R&D is facing a productivity crisis characterised by stagnation in the numbers of new drug approvals in the face of increasing R&D costs. This study explores pharmaceutical R&D dynamics by examining the publication activities of all R&D...