.g. patents, to protect their innovations, whereas small and medium-sized (SME), low-tech and weakly internationalized companies … fol-low the strategy of protecting their innovations with informal instruments, e.g. secrecy, to maximize their expected …

manufacturing in 2000, it turns out that patents are important to protect intellectual property in the market, whereas secrecy seems …' arose as a consequence of strategic patenting. This study analyzes the importance of patenting versus secrecy as an …

emphasis on the major traditional areas of copyright, trademarks and patents. Each chapter in this study discusses the …