Design is of key importance to the UK economy, with £33.5billion spent on design in 2008. This importance prompted the IPO to commission a set of research projects around design rights which has been produced in four chapters.The second chapter looks at the impact registered design rights have...

This paper examines the responses from Creative Industries Organisations (CIOs), 89% of which were firms, to the DCMS’s 2020 survey on new product and service development activities. The findings show that, perhaps contrary to expectations, many CIOs engage in research and development (R&D),...

This paper uses official statistics published by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to examine the regional distribution of the Creative Industries by employment and economic output. While the Creative Industries have become a substantial sector within the UK economy, there are...

Books reviewed in this article: Dengjian Jin - The Dynamics of Knowledge Regimes: Technology, Culture and Competitiveness in the USA and Japan Chrisanthi Avgerou and Renata Lebre La Rovere (eds.) - Information Systems and the Economics of Innovation John T. Scott - Environmental Research and...

Design – the purposive application of creativity to all the activities necessary to bringideas into use either as product (service) or process innovations1 – could and shouldmake and important contribution to the performance of every firm. The designprocess is inextricably linked with...

The bidder who wins at an auction may end up paying more for an asset than it is actually worth. This, stated very simply, is the so-called winner's curse. Consider the simplest possible case where the asset has the same actual value to all bidders, but bidders do not know for certain what that...

This paper explores the use of specialist knowledge providers as sources of information in the innovation activities of manufacturing and service firms. Specialist knowledge providers are consultancies, private research organisations and the public science-base (i.e., universities and the...

This paper studies the antecedents of internationalization amongst professional service firms (PSFs). Using a unique panel of UK-based engineering consultancies over the 1994-2009 period, we show that more specialized PSFs are more likely to internationalize than firms with a broader scope of...