Intellectual property and innovation management in small firms / edited by Robert A. Blackburn.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the intellectual property initiative / John Adams -- 1. Small firms, innovation and intellectual property management : the context and a research agenda / Robert A. Blackburn -- 2. Innovation, intellectual property and informality : evidence from a study of small enterprises and some implications for policy / John Kitching and Robert A. Blackburn -- 3. A strategic approach to managing intellectual property / Duncan Matthews, John Pickering and John Kirkland -- 4. Copyright protection strategies by small textiles firms / Anne-Marie Coles, Keith Dickson and Adrian Woods -- 5. Intellectual property in biotechnology firms / Sandra Thomas -- 6. Management of intellectual property by electronic publishers / Puay Tang -- 7. Controlling intellectual property across the high-tech frontier : university spin-offs, SMEs and the science base / Andrew Webster, Brian Rappert and David R. Charles -- 8. Worlds apart : patent information and innovation in SMEs / Stuart MacDonald and Bernard Lefang -- 9. Barriers to the use patent information in SMEs / Matthew Hall, Charles Oppenheim and Margaret Sheen.