Concerns have been raised that the upsurge of 3D printing technology would disrupt the patent system. The central … question the present paper aims to address is whether and to what extent the emergence of 3D printing technology indeed urges … adequacy of current enforcement tools and strategies. A lack of adequate enforcement tools might well undermine the innovation …

(the CD index) that characterizes innovation in science and technology as either consolidating or disruptive. We challenge … truncation of all backward citations before 1976. We also show that this truncation bias varies by technology class. We update … the analysis to 2016 and account for a change in U.S. patent law that allows for citations to patent applications in …

toward these potential high-impact technologies and compare the state of cutting-edge innovation in Switzerland to other … countries. Our findings imply that the Swiss innovation system is among the laggards regarding innovations in today's fastest …