the analysis of the use of biotech patent information for determining technological trends and generating innovation … is showed for a specific area. Finally, some considerations about patents as innovation indicator and base of …

organize their alliance activities influences this relationship between technological diversity and firm innovation. To test …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …

Firms' search for external knowledge is one aspect of knowledge integration in the innovation process. The literature … has investigated innovation and the breadth of search in different information channels. We introduce the concept of … search balance reflecting the heterogeneity of a firm's knowledge base. Results from German Community Innovation Survey data …

In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the … underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from …

development; it is about innovation, without which competitiveness is unthinkable. Romania is part of the "catching-up" group of … countries in innovation. In order to assume new responsibilities and to prepare for the competition with other European … analyze the situation of innovation at EUlevel and to see at what chapters our authorities must to work harder to equalize the …

concentration upon innovation, focusing on robust findings, questions of interpretation, and the identification of major gaps. We … also consider the more modest literature that considers the effect on innovation of firm characteristics other than size …

in industries where technological and organizational innovation is important. Indeed a large literature has grown up on … ways they evolve over time. Another domain concerns the nature of competition in such industries, wherein innovation and … briefly flag some fundamental aspects of economic growth and development as an innovation-driven evolutionary process. …