Intellectual property and innovation management in small firms

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London : Routledge, 2003

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9780415228848

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Technological innovations -- Great Britain -- Management

Small business -- Great Britain -- Management

Small business -- Technological innovations -- Great Britain

Intellectual property -- Great Britain

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Blackburn, Robert A.

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Intellectual property protection is increasingly becoming a central issue for businesses. This book provides a wealth of original research on intellectual property management in small and medium sized enterprises, while also addressing the context of innovation and knowledge management.

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Robert A. Blackburn (PhD) is Director of Research, Kingston Business School and HSBC Professor of Small Business Studies, Kingston University, UK. He has extensive experience of researching the smaller enterprise, using a variety of methodological approaches. He is editor of the International Small Business Journal and co-author of Researching the Small Enterprise (with James Curran). He is a member of the Institute of Small Business Affairs and the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences.

John AdamsRobert A. BlackburnJohn Kitching and Robert A. BlackburnDuncan Matthews and John Pickering and John KirklandAnne-Marie Coles and Keith Dickson and Adrian WoodsSandra ThomasPuay TangAndrew Webster and Brian Rappert and David R. CharlesStuart Macdonald and Bernard LefangMatthew Hall and Charles Oppenheim and Margaret Sheen

List of figures	p. vii
List of tables	p. viii
Notes on contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: the Intellectual Property Initiative	p. 1
1 Small firms, innovation and intellectual property management: the context and a research agenda	p. 4
2 Innovation, intellectual property and informality: evidence from a study of small enterprises and some implications for policy	p. 16
3 A strategic approach to managing intellectual property	p. 35
4 Copyright protection strategies by small textiles firms	p. 55
5 Intellectual property in biotechnology firms	p. 69
6 Management of intellectual property by electronic publishers	p. 85
7 Controlling intellectual property across the high-tech frontier: university spin-offs, SMEs and the science base	p. 105
8 Worlds apart: patent information and innovation in SMEs	p. 123
9 Barriers to the use of patent information in SMEs	p. 144
Index	p. 161

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