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Using intellectual property protection to capture value from innovation in knowledge intensive service firms
Firms employ a variety of means to protect their Intellectual Property (IP), including formal methods (eg patents, trademarks, copyrights), contractual agreements (confidentiality agreements and employment contracts) and informal methods (eg secrecy and lead time advantages). However, little is known about the ways in which Knowledge-intensive Business Service (KIBS) firms,...
The probability of catching cartels: EU data 1985-2009
The dataset records firms that were involved in EU-wide cartels and were discovered by the European Commission between 1985-2009. Data were compiled from public sources such as the European Commission's cartel database and include the date of cartel detection.
Reliable estimates of crime detection rates could help design better sanctions and improve our understanding of the...
Sustaining growth for innovative new enterprises: UK firm data
To select the group of UK firms we initially searched in the FAME database (available from the University of Manchester Library) with keywords relating to the green goods sector, please see the publication Shapira, et al (2014, in Technological Forecasting & Social Change, vol. 85, pp. 93-104) for further details on the keywords. This database contains anonymized firm data...
Knowledge-Intensive Firms in the UK and Ireland: Influences, Strategies and Skills
The aim of this study was to explore the impact of industrial policy, labour market regulation and firm strategies and practices on skills and broader employee outcomes in knowledge-intensive firms in the UK and Ireland.
In the UK, the data collection comprised the following. 16 individual face-to-face interviews lasting around one hour were held with policymakers and...