We survey the economic literature, both theoretical and empirical, on the choice of
intellectual property protection by firms. Our focus is on the trade-offs between using patents …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to investigate how and how much open innovation is
used across Europe. The goal of this study is therefore to provide comprehensive empirical …

Using information from a survey of US inventors, this study explores the reasons for patent
non-use and different types of non-use at the patent level, and how this varies by industry …

Building off the resource‐based view and the knowledge‐based view, our study aims to
examine determinants of firms' R&D outsourcing, using annually‐conducted firm‐level …

Existing literature on open innovation shows the evolving diffusion of open innovation in
certain industries and contexts. Also various case studies and theoretical work suggest that …

Purpose Patents as one of the important components of intellectual capital are emerging as
a new source for mining insights on open innovation (OI) practice of the organizations. Their …

Theoretical advances in the economics of knowledge and innovation since the 1980s
conceptualize knowledge as partly tacit, sticky, context-dependent and idiosyncratic, and …

In this study we examine the antecedents of small independent software vendor (ISV)
decisions to join a platform ecosystem. Using data on the history of partnering activities from …

This paper examines the making of university and industry research collaboration from the
perspective of matching theory. Our analysis, based on an original survey in Japan, aims at …

International research collaborations have become important, as more countries in the world
have significantly strengthened research capability and as firms globalize their research …