Empirical evidence shows that the distribution of patent applications is highly skewed in terms of company size, with a … few large enterprises being responsible for the majority of patent applications. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs …), on the other hand, are important players in national innovation systems and are the subject of policy sup-port in many …

describing a concordance between scientific disciplines and technology fields. While patent/sector concordances based on …

Global innovations have been on the rise in the last decade. About 4.5% of all transnational patent filings are global … 70% of all international co-patents were global innovations. Global innovations also outperform the average patent in … terms of patent quality, i.e. global innovations are significantly higher cited and are broader in terms of market coverage …