Most research and policy on protecting innovation focus on patents. Yet, almost all technology managers report secrecy to be more important than patents. Here, I show theoretically that stronger secrecy laws could increase or reduce R&D. By reducing spillovers, secrecy laws might reduce or raise the return to R&D, depending on whether spillover and own R&D are complements or substitutes. By str...

Knowledge sharing is crucial to organizational and team success. As the complexity and contextualization of knowledge management systems continue to escalate, employees are increasingly relying on peers for contextualized technical help. Our study focuses on knowledge sharing from the perspective of employees who provide technical help, and whether employees who are central to team communicatio...

The knowledge base of companies is increasingly seen as underlying a firm’s performance, and the role of knowledge workers within this framework is seen as strongly associated with a firm’s competitive performance. This perspective views the effective management of knowledge workers as crucial in sustaining an organisation’s competitive advantage. The paper views the financial industry as a kno...

The introduction of healthcare information systems (HIS) technologies into the healthcare environment has led to increased efficiency in providing better services and improved processes for healthcare practitioners. Hence, the information technology (IT) department has a significant role in providing technical support and maintenance to the HIS in order to ensure efficiency of the HIS use among...

Purpose – The proliferation and advance of web-based technologies create expanded opportunities for retailers to gain a better understanding of their customers. However, the success of these web-based discussion boards depends solely on whether customers are willing to share their knowledge and experience with other customers in these discussion boards. Thus, this study aims at identifying the ...

The role played by gatekeepers who acquire external technical knowledge, translate that knowledge so as to contextualise it for their companies needs and disseminate it to key organisational personnel is of increasing importance and value to firms. This study uses a single case study to extend the existing literature on technological gatekeepers through helping to fill two theoretical gaps. Fir...

Over the past decade, groupware technologies, such as email, electronic bulletin boards, and group support systems, have become an important part of the businesscomputing infrastructure in many organizations. This evolving software category has captured the attention and imagination of information technology professionals, line of business managers and end users, not to mention software supplie...

This report provides a brief overview of the theoretical foundations for creativity and innovation in the context ofeducation, as a background for the other planned reports. It attempts to define creativity and innovation in theeducational context and provide an overview of research on creativity and innovation, especially for creativelearning and innovative teaching. This work aims...

Decision Support Systems for the environment have to incorporate and exploit knowledge about the phenomena and the interdependencies in the affected natural systems, i.e. a model. Using an ongoing project on mangrove forest management as an example, we discuss different tasks and requirements and propose to use methods and techniques developed in research on modeling and model-based systems in ...

Acknowledgement I would like to thank my supervisor Vincent Moulton for many interesting discussions and ideas, for giving me the opportunity to travel and meet interesting people and collaborators, and for introducing me to the field of RNA. I would also like to thank all my coworkers; David Ardell for helpful advice and discussions and for taking over the load of being my supervisor; Sverker ...