Overview
Andrea Mina and Alan Hughes have completed a review of the use of patents by SMEs for the UK Strategic Advisory Board on Intellectual Property. The study includes an extensive overview of the literature, a discussion of the international empirical evidence available on this issue, and quantitative analyses of UK Community Innovation Survey 4 and CBR/IPC innovation benchmarking data.
Project leaders
Alan Hughes
Andrea Mina
Project dates
2010
Funding
Strategy Advisory Board on Intellectual Property (SABIP)
Output
Working papers
Hughes, A. and Mina, A. (2010), The Impact of the Patent System on SMEs, CBR Working Paper 411, September.