Frietsch, Rainer; Neuhäusler, Peter; Rothengatter, Oliver - 2013
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 …