advance the notion of quadic patent family, defined as a patent family that consists of patent applications at the European … Patent Office, the Japanese Patent Office, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and the national patent office of a … a sample of 38 countries. Our results indicate that quadic patent applications are driven by the need for accessing …

innovation within the wine cluster in the Niagara Peninsula in Canada. A variety of policies shape the parameters (financial …This paper applies an innovation system framework to analyze the development of a natural resource-based system of …, fiscal, legal) within which opportunities for innovation open or are constrained and choices are made. Two of these have led …

The science-technology-innovation system is one that is continuously and rapidly evolving. The dramatic growth over the … last twenty years in the use of science, technology and innovation (STI) indicators appears first and foremost the result … and economic objectives and in which business competition is increasingly based on innovation. As highlighted on the basis …

Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation … clients, human capital development, ICT usage, product innovation and learning by exporting, with an R&D effect only in the … long run. Though the intensity with which firms engage in these innovation activities is sector dependent, innovation …

The aim of the paper is to assess heterogeneity of the innovation process. Using exploratory factor analysis on micro … data from the third Community Innovation Survey in 13 countries, we identify four factors that that can be interpreted as … research, user, external and production ingredients of innovation. All too often it is assumed that the differences between the …

capacity building in the origin country through knowledge transfer, innovation and technological change. The paper specifically …

Using a unique firm level data set on learning and product innovation in Tanzanian manufacturing and commercial farming … for product innovation. The results indicate that larger and foreign owned firms invest significantly more in human and … and specialised labour - necessary for product innovation in imperfect markets. …

We estimate the value of Chinese invention and utility model patents that were applied for during two periods, 1987 … by domestic entities, and the gap is significant. The total value of invention and utility model patents in the 1987 …

business R&D location for Canada. …