China has surpassed the United States in patent applications and has become world leader. Strong patenting activity … by electronics manufacturers. State-owned firms spend more on R&D per patent, but hold fewer patents per researcher than … to patent more, and government support also appears to matter. Exterior design patents are associated with different firm …

innovation performance of companies and can pose major threats to global competition and economic growth. However, the actual …-2013 (OECD-EUIPO, 2016) with financial information and patent data from 2009 to 2015. The result is a firm-level database that … of patents. However, seizures enacted in defence of patents are those that have the highest mean value. The analysis of …

The objective of the paper is to lay out the state of knowledge on the role of innovation and the diffusion of … emphasis will be put on developing countries in which innovation, skills and technological absorptive capacities tend to be … some concepts and definitions on technology, innovation, and the channels of technology diffusion. In a second part, we use …

communities involved in the translation of biomedical innovation and health technologies from the laboratory bench to point of …