New firms are regarded to be of substantial importance for the development of an economy, especially for innovation, growth, and the creation of jobs. However, new firms also face a high risk of failure. Thus,…
Company-wide packages of enterprise software for planning and controlling business processes, referred to as enterprise systems, are widely used in many different industries throughout many countries around…
In recent years, the view on patents as an instrument for firms to appropriate the returns from inventive activities has shifted towards a more explicit consideration of a patent's strategic importance. In fact,…
