Bücher der Reihe Innovation und Entrepreneurship

Collective knowledge and the associated concepts of collectively learning, remembering and inventing are increasingly important in today's economy and society. Based on novel data sets which identify founders as inventors on patents and survey data collected from senior management, the author investigates questions about knowledge processing.

Applying novel datasets, Fabian Gassler analyzes how key aspects of the current patent system in Europe and Germany, respectively, affect patent enforcement and patent trade.