EPO Worldwide Patent Statistical Database PATSTAT. Based on the final dataset, covering about 1,700 world’s top corporate … R&D investors and their patenting activity, we find that about one-fifth focus their patent-relevant R&D activity in …-based technological advantages to expand their market penetration (HBE strategy). With patent data from the late 2010s, we find a further …

and patent productivity of the respective regional innovation systems (RIS). The empirical analysis is for nine German …