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First annual report

First Periodic Report - Executive Summary
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Part 1 – Project Objectives and Major Achievements during the first year
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Part 2 – Project Workpackage progress during the first year
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Second annual report

Second Periodic Report - Executive Summary
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Part 1 – Project Objectives and Major Achievements during the second year
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Part 2 – Project Workpackage progress during the second year
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Third annual report

– the third and final annual report is due in May 2009 –

academic publications

Journals

Andersen, B. and Konzelmann, S. (2008) In Search of a Useful Theory of The Productive Potential of Intellectual Property Rights, Research Policy, Vol 37, pp. 12-28.

Dyker, D. (2008) Innovation in crisis in the new member-states of the EU: Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Regional overview. The Economist Intelligence Unit, January 2008.

Guenther, J. and K. Wagner (2008) Getting out of the ivory tower – new perspectives on the entrepreneurial university, European Journal for International Management, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 400-417.

Günther, J., B. Jindra, and J. Stephan (2008) Foreign Direct Investment in Regional Innovation Systems – Experiences from East Germany’, Applied Economics Quarterly Supplement, Issue Nr. 59, pp. 137-165.

Günther, J., B. Jindra, and J. Stephan (2008), Ostdeutsches Innovationssystem attraktiv für ausländische Investoren, Wirtschaft im Wandel, No. 1/2008, pp. 35-44.

Kaasa, A. and E. Parts (2008) Individual-level Determinants of Social Capital in Europe: Differences between Country Groups, Acta Sociologica, Vol. 51, No.2, pp. 145-168.

Kaasa, A. (2008) Effects of Different Dimensions of Social Capital on Innovative
Activity: Evidence from Europe at the Regional Level, Technovation, forthcoming 7.3.2008, doi:10.1016/j.technovation.2008.01.003

Kelli, A. (2008) Some Issues of the Estonian Innovation and Intellectual Property Policy, JURIDICA INTERNATIONAL, XV/2008, pp. 104-114.

Kelli, A. and H. Pisuke (2008) Intellectual Property in an Innovation-based Economy, Review of Central and East European Law, Vol. 33, pp. 223-238.

Masso, J., Vahter, P. (2008) Technological Innovation and Productivity in Post-Transition Estonia: Econometric Evidence from Innovation Surveys, European Journal of Development Research, Vol. 20, Issue 2, pp. 240-261.

Masso, J., Varblane, U., and P. Vahter (2008), The Impact of Outward FDI on Home-Country Employment in a Low-Cost Transition Economy, Eastern European Economics, Vol. 46, No. 6., pp. 27-61.

Torokoff, M., Mets, T. (2008) Organisational learning: A concept for improving teachers’ competences in the Estonian school, International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Small Business, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 64-82.

Varblane, U., T. Mets, and K. Ukrainski (2008) The role of the University-Industry-Government linkages in the innovation processes of the small catching-up economy, Industry and Higher Education, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 1-14.

Andersen, B., Z. Kozul-Wright, and R. Kozul-Wright (2007) Rents, Rights N'Rhythm: Conflict, Cooperation and Capabilities in The Music Industry, Industry and Innovation, Vol 13, Issue 5, pp. 513-540.

Cörvers, F.and J. Meriküll (2007), Occupational structures across 25 EU countries: the importance of industry structure and technology in old and new EU countries, Economic Change and Restructuring, Vol.40, pp.327-359.

Iversen, E.J., M. Gulbrandsen, and A. Klitkou (2007) A baseline for the impact of academic patenting legislation in Norway, Scientometrics, Vol. 70, No. 2, pp. 393-414.

von Ledebur, S. (2007) Optimizing knowledge transfer by new employees in companies, Knowledge Management Research & Practice, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 229-236.

Mets, T., Leego, M., Talpsep, T., and U. Varblane (2007) The Role of Intellectual Property Protection in the Business Strategy of University Spin-Off Biotech Companies in a Small Transition Economy, Review of Central and East European Law, Vol. 32, pp. 19-40.

Varblane, U., D. Dyker, D. Tamm and N. von Tunzelmann (2007) Can the national innovation systems of the new EU member-states be improved?, Post-Communist Economies, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 399-416.

Varblane, U., D. Dyker, and D. Tamm (2007) How to improve the national systems of the catching up economies?, TRAMES, A Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 106–123.

von Ledebur, S. (2006) Patentverwertungsagenturen und der Wissenstransfer von Hochschulen – ein Literaturüberblick, Wirtschaft im Wandel, No. 9/2006, pp. 266-74.

von Ledebur, S. (2006) Bedingungen der Wissensweitergabe von neuen Mitarbeitern in Unternehmen – eine spieltheoretische Analyse, Wirtschaft im Wandel, No. 1/2006, pp. 27-32.

Stephan, J. and B. Jindra (2006) Unter welchen Bedingungen profitieren einheimische Zulieferunternehmen von ausländischen Direktinvestitionen, Wirtschaft im Wandel, No. 10/2006, pp. 290-96.

Books and book chapters

Paas, T. and U. Varblane (2008) 'Catching up Process in the Case of Small Post-Socialist Economy: The Lessons of Estonia', Chapter 21, in: J. Ram Pillarisetti, R. Lawrey, T. Siew Yean, Shamim A. Siddiqui, and A. Ahmad (eds), Small Economies and Global Economics, Nova Sience Publishers, pp. 233-254 (ISBN 978-160456-477-8).

Mets, T. (2008) 'Regio – a learned global knowledge company: Case from Estonia', in: R. Aidis and F. Welter (eds), The Cutting Edge: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in New Europe, Edward Elgar, pp. 54-73.

Formica, P., U. Varblane, and T. Mets (2008) 'Knowledge transfer mechanisms from universities and other HEIs to the SME sector', in: E. Carayannis and P. Formica (eds), Knowledge matters: Innovation networks and knowledge clusters, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 21-51.

Andrijevskaja, J., and T. Mets (2008) 'Master Program in Entrepreneurship and Technology Management in Estonia', in: P. van der Sijde, A. Ridder, G. Blaauwm, and C. Diensberg (eds), Teaching Entrepreneurship, Springer, pp. 99-107.

Discussion papers

Damijan, J.P., M. Rojec, B. Majcen, and M. Knell (2008) Impact of Firm Heterogeneity on Direct and Spillover Effects of FDI: Micro Evidence from Ten Transition Countries, LICOS Discussion Paper No. 218/2008, Pp. 43.

Günther, J., B. Jindra, and J. Stephan (2008) Foreign Subsidiaries in the East German Innovation System – Evidence from Manufacturing Industries, IWH Discussion Paper No. 4/2008, Pp. 34.

Krap, N. and J. Stephan (2008) The Relationship between Knowledge Intensity and Market Concentration in European Industries: An inverted U-Shape, IWH-Discussion Paper No. 3/2008, Pp. 27.

Schnellbächer, B. and J. Stephan (2009) The Role of the Intellectual Property Rights Regime for Foreign Investors in Post-Socialist Economies, IWH-Discussion Paper No. 4/2009, Pp. 34.

von Ledebur, S. (2007) A game theoretic analysis of the conditions of knowledge transfer by new employees in companies, IWH-Discussion Paper No. 3/2006, Pp. 21.