assesses the innovation model. In 2010, BRIC countries accounted for 13% of global demand, with spending of about € 328 billion …

This report presents original data and statistics on the innovation output of world top corporate R&D investors … insights about the innovation strategies of this sample of world leading corporate R&D investors and opens the door to further …-based policy making in the area of innovation and industrial policies. This joint EC-OECD report builds on the efforts to collect …

The effect of a firm's size is analysed in relation with the probability of applying for a patent. We worked on the … identification of a firm's minimum size, a threshold needed to formally protect an innovation by legal means. Below this minimum size … literature concludes that as size increases so does the propensity to patent. This research finds similar results for pool …

Scoreboard. With respect to these companies, patent data are drawn from Patstat, on the basis of which patent families are built … up, and crossed with other data on their R&D investments. Both the R&D and the patent applications of the investigated … sample of companies increase over time. At the same time, important sector specificities in the R&D-patent relationship have …

Support to university patent ownership is a popular R&D policy initiative to promote effective knowledge sharing. Yet …-owned patents in the EU and US, tentative results illustrate that the risk of negative consequences exists. Complementing current … metrics about university performance with statistics about business patents with university inventors would help avoid such a …

This paper provides evidence on the mechanisms influencing the patent output of a sample of biotechnology firms from … models of counts are used to analyse the relationship between patent applications and R&D investment and capital expenditures … including the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard, the European Patent Office (EPO), the US Patent and Trademark Office …

This research investigates deals with the impact of various innovation activities on innovation output by using Spanish … innovation activities lead to differences in both the propensity to innovate and innovation output, depending on the … technological characteristics a firm has. In general, internal R&D leads to product innovation, while machinery acquisition leads to …

of technological competitiveness (based on innovation in products and markets) or cost competitiveness (relying on … innovation in processes and machinery) and their impact on economic performances. We propose models for the determinants of … Pavitt classes that group manufacturing and services industries with distinct patterns of innovation. Tests are carried out …

centred on the provision of assistance to Member States who joined in 2004, 2007 and 2013 in using innovation funding under … ESIFs via the early and effective implementation of RIS3 with the aim of closing the innovation gap and promote scientific …