Objectives.The main objective of the present study is to provide a comprehensive coverage of the patenting activity at the European Patent Office by companies in the remit of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR). We also aim at moving forward the understanding of the firm-level patenting...

The provision of Open Data (OD) has been promoted by governments around the world with the hope of fuelling entrepreneurial use of the data for new products or process innovations. However, these benefits are still far from being fully understood and realised, and it remains unclear to what...

Drawing on the knowledge-based view of the firm, we investigate whether firm performance is related to the accumulated stock of technological knowledge associated with the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), and what contextual factors affect this relationship. We test our research questions on...