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 …China has surpassed the United States in patent applications and has become world leader. Strong patenting activity …

patent applications remains low and their ratio of patents granted to applications is below that of industry. An econometric …. Our evidence, which builds on a database that matches research institutions to a sample of their patent applications …, indicates patent applications to the European Patent Office (EPO) filed by research institutions grew faster than industry …

. Innovation cooperation is recognised as one of its antecedents, along with R&D, but with different possible outcomes, depending … on innovation. The empirical application, carried out on about 10,500 firms located in 3 EU countries (i.e. Germany … firm's AC providing it occurs within the national boundaries. The transformation of AC into actual innovation is favoured …