Firms from emerging countries such as Brazil, India, and China (BIC) are going global, and Europe is attracting around …

far a domestic technology and knowledge base could be build up. Methodology Patent statistics are a crucial tool for …, 1984, and Schmoch et al., 1988). In this paper, patent data are used, in order to measure innovation activities. As …, region, or economy (see Frietsch, 2007). Besides, by means of patent data, inventor networks are filtered. Breschi and …