Technology Market Intermediaries (TMI) are currently emerging on the markets for technologies attempting to realize … business opportunities and facilitate the technology and IP transactions supporting firms and other markets actors (e ….g. universities). They aim to support open innovation, respectively facilitate more economically technology and particularly IP …

imitating German technology. A century ago, however, German machine tool makers used exactly the same methods to imitate … American technology. To understand the dynamics of this catching-up process we use patent statistics to analyze firms …