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.
Working papers
Hughes, A. and Mina, A. (2010), The Impact of the Patent System on SMEs, CBR Working Paper 411, September.