Dubaric, Ervin; Giannoccaro, Dimitris; Bengtsson, Rune; … - In: World Patent Information 33 (2011) 2, pp. 144-149
This paper reports a study into the use of patent application numbers as indicators of technological development in the field of wind power technology. We show that patent information can be used to analyse the evolution and the level of maturity of this particular technology. The data is gained...