Although for a long time policy has emphasized the role of intellectual property rights as a
growth agent facilitating innovation, the literature has called into question this relationship …

Entrepreneurial orientation has recently been touted as a tool for solving enterprise failures
in emerged and emerging economies especially during and after an epidemic. This study …

This editorial to the special issue on “Trademarks and their role in innovation,
entrepreneurship and industrial organization” proposes a novel framework to understand …

Effective innovation policymaking critically relies on monitoring innovation. An emerging
literature suggests that trademarks could help measure a larger share of innovations than …

Literature suggests that formal and informal appropriation mechanisms, such as patents and
trade secrecy, play a crucial role in obtaining returns from innovation. Whether this applies to …

This paper investigates whether a green kind of design helps firms increase their
capabilities for inventing in the environmental domain and whether it does so more than …

Although a sizable body of research concerning innovation and intellectual property (IP)
performance exists, there has been limited attention on whether the state of IP strengthens …

Intellectual property (IP) rights are a major component of firms' strategies to appropriate the
benefits of their innovations. This paper aims at assessing the interactions between two …

Abstract Design in general is inextricably bound to a product and market perspective,
however design rights only start to matter in the academic literature. The literature until now …

The role that appropriation mechanisms such as patents and secrecy play in sustainable
innovation is currently being debated. In particular, we lack an understanding of the different …