The paper uses a range of primary-source empirical evidence to address the question: ‘why is it to hard to value …

paper considers the strategic interaction between the government and the domestic firms regarding the investment in the … cannot afford to invest in such expensive technology. The paper analyses the factors that affect the probability of …

conventional modes of IP protection, like patenting and copyright. This paper provides a statistical, econometric and case study …

This paper considers trade secrecy as an appropriation mechanism in the context of the US Economic Espionage Act (EEA … paper builds on extant work in three respects. First, we create a unique body of evidence, using EEA prosecutions from 1996 …

This paper explains how a database of patent quality in the UK scientific instruments industry was constructed for the …

policies to close the gap. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the growth of high technology clusters in the U.S. …