How firms appropriate value from their inventions is the basis of this research. By introducing the construct of generative appropriability, this paper sheds light on the theoretical and managerial importance of recognising that any invention creates two values - the value of the article itself, and the value relating to its potential for development.

Longevity risk posed by an ageing population is one of the greatest challenges facing the financial services sector in the UK. In the fifth of the 2013 series of The Nicholas Barbon Insurance Lectures, Cass Business School Professor Les Mayhew addressed this issue.

With a sustained high single to double digit economic growth and development in recent decades, East Asian economies are increasingly playing the role of a global growth pole, and are fast emerging as a manufacturing and information technology hub of the world economy. One of the key characteristics of the East Asia region is the presence and importance of a significant small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) sector, comprising the majority of enterprises in all the region's economies.

The paper examines the issues and challenges to East Asian SMEs in a renewed global market environment. The importance of SMEs in their respective nation's economy is demonstrated, and the difficulties, challenges, and opportunities for SMEs in the new economic environment after the 2008 financial crisis are discussed.

This paper proposes a stochastic model for loss reserving based on incremental reported claim numbers and paid amounts, and which serves to predict Reported But Not Settled (RBNS) and Incurred But Not Reported (IBNR) claims separately. The paper takes the approach of building a model for aggregate paid claims from basic principles at the level of individual data. The research suggests that the use of the aggregated counts data can improve reserving accuracy.