nanomaterials. We analyse European Patent Office data at the German district level (NUTS-3) on applications for nanomaterial patents …&D on the production of nanomaterial patents. Moreover, we find a positive interaction between them which hints at the …

countries in the field of nanotechnology affect the development of inventive activities by US multinational companies (MNCs). We … identify the most active US-based MNCs in nanotechnology-related patenting and examine location decisions of these companies …, but as the interdisciplinary and convergent nature of nanotechnology evolves, access to a broadly diversified knowledge …

inventors in the NST using multiple indicators. We clustered patents in three groups according to the scientific curricula of … the inventors. The first two groups are composed by patents whose inventors all are authors of at least one scientific … those patents that have at least one inventor, who is also author of at least one scientific publication in the NST. The …

This paper investigates the determinants of EPO (European Patent Office) patent applications per capita using a panel … of 22 OECD countries with data measured as five-year averages for the period 1980-1999. The patent production function is …) estimators. Estimates using system GMM estimators show a moderate degree of persistence in EPO patents per capita with an …

number of research scholars) are transformed into research outputs in the form of publications and patents. We expect …

In 2010 China was the world's fourth largest filer of patent applications. This followed a decade of unprecedented … increases in investment in skills and Research and Development. If current trends continue China could rank first in the very … inventors creating technologies that are near to the science base. Part of the success of China has been to attract the …

firms and research organisations, we find that in the co-patent network collaboration is most intense between high …-technology firms and use-inspired basic research institutes. While many companies co-patent with several universities or other public … institutes, some succeed in establishing almost exclusive relationships with public research units. It is shown that co-patent …

Nanotechnologie ist eine technologische Innovation, die aufgrund ihrer absehbaren vielfältigen Anwendungsmöglichkeiten … große Hoffnungen auf neue Wachstumschancen der Wirtschaft weckt. Derzeit befindet sich die Nanotechnologie noch überwiegend … anderen Hochtechnologienationen, insbesondere den USA und asiatischen Ländern wie Japan, China und Südkorea. In diesen Ländern …

Kommunikationstechniken und der Gentechnik. Heute ist es neben der Biotechnologie zunehmend die Nanotechnologie, die im Hinblick auf ihr …-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) hat etwa die Hälfte der Befragten von dem Begriff "Nanotechnologie" schon etwas gehört. Insgesamt kann sich … Produkte der Nanotechnologie kennt. …