nowadays, business methods are among the most important assets of a company, protectable as an intellectual property right. different legal systems have, always, taken different approaches in this regard. although trade secrets are the most traditional form to protect business methods, the companies' willingness to patent inventions in this field has so increased that the significance and ...

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...

Both public policy and business management are increasingly interested in how to manage trade secrets. One of the driving forces is growing significance data as an asset, ‘oil 21st century'. Trade secrets often seen major Intellectual Property (IP) tool for protecting data. There also understanding that need share increasing allow new types innovation. This paper seeks understand sharing practi...