With a sample of 18,611 utility patents, this paper studies the patent mix of 90 of the world's leading food and beverage multinationals (FBMs) from 1969-1994. It explores the statistical association within companies between patenting in food technology, in agriculture and in ten non-food...

We explore whether current innovation has an enduring effect on future innovative activity in large, global food and beverage (F&B) companies. We analyze a sample of 16,698 patents granted in the United States over the period 1977 to 1994 to 103 F&B firms selected from the world's largest F&B...

This article explores through structural equation modeling whether the level of a food and beverage multinational's (FBM) technical capacities in food, biotechnology and drugs predicts the level of its technical capacities in chemicals. Patent analysis for 90 large FBMs in North America, Europe,...