-intensive sectors such as machinery and automobile, its technological presence in terms of international patent filings are very weak in … Electronics, ICT, and biopharmaceuticals. Moreover, patent filings from small and medium-sized enterprises in these sectors are … international co-invention occurs more frequently in the weaker technology areas. This indirectly indicates that international …

analyzing the dynamics of transnational patent filings of German inventors in an international comparison over the past 20 years … patent statistics by analyzing patent activities of the German federal states. In a final step, we take a closer look at … patent dynamics in the public research sector. …

crucial problem hereby is that a large share of patent filings from universities is registered by companies and the university … staff only appears as an inventor. Therefore, improved approaches, which are also able to detect patent filings that have …