set out to not only further systematize existing approaches investigating nanotechnology's GPT traits based on patent …Scientific literature postulates that nanotechnology is to be considered as general purpose technology (GPT … nanotechnology's research output to the ones of ICT as accepted GPT and of the combustion engine as a non- GPT, representing an upper …

its impact on patent law, nanotechnology has to be defined and its peculiarities have to be identified. In this first part …Emerging in the nineteenth century, with a focus on classical engineering and chemistry, patent law has seen many … of the analysis, two important categories of nanotechnology – active and passive nanotechnology – will also be presented …

Universities and companies are rushing to the patent office in record numbers to patent nanotechnology inventions. This … rush to the patent office is so significant that many law firms have established nanotechnology practice groups, and the U ….S. Patent and Trademark Office has now created a new technology class designed to track nanotechnology products. Three big …

. The data matches firm level accounting data with information on the patents that those firms and their subsidiaries have … applied for at the European Patents Office. We describe the data in detail. -- International investment and multinational …

We geocode a data set of patents and their citation counts, including citations from abroad. This allows us to examine … academic R&D. With one important exception, results using citation weighted patents are similar to those using unweighted … patents. For example, estimates of the returns to density (jobs per square mile) are only slightly changed when using citation …

We analyze the nanotechnology patent applications filed in China from 1998 to 2008 and find that the extraordinary … nanotechnology development in China has been primarily promoted by the public sector but not driven by industry and market force …. This finding implies that developing countries such as China with public research capacity and commitment to technological …

developing ones, in which patents are proportionally rare. In this sense, it's applied an empirical model based in the Jaffe …'s (1989) knowledge production function to Brazilian regions. The model uses patents as a proxy for the innovative output and … innovation measured by patents, and, similarly, a relation between patenting activity of the firms and local academic research …