In the lead up to the Year 2000 dot.com crash of publicly traded high-technology equities, Information Communication Technology (ICT) Companies proudly displayed inter-firm allegiances on their newly created websites. These collaborative relationships were in reality licensing agreements to...

Gegenstand der Arbeit sind konzeptionelle Ansätze von Grundsätzen ordnungsmäßiger Due Diligence, die Ex-Post-Überraschungen als Folge von Informationsrisiken und die im Bereich des Unternehmenskaufs bestehende Rechtsunsicherheit verringern sollen. Leitlinie ist hierbei der Schutz des zu...

Technological innovation, knowledge diffusion and employee entrepreneurship and mobility are closely related phenomena. Multiple literature streams in strategy, entrepreneurship and technology management focus on explaining them. However, relatively little is known about the micro-level...

In this paper we report a study into innovative capacity of UK SME firms. We argue that theability of a firm to develop successful innovations is a function of their innovative capacity.Wedeveloped the concept in this paper and suggest it is largely determined by four sets of factorsincluding...