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 … patent holders. Furthermore, the paper examines what drives patenting activity. Higher R&D spending by the firm and higher …

Patent data provide an increasingly used means to analyse innovation performance worldwide including in countries with … patent data for measuring and analysing innovation in narrow technological fields, such as many environment …-related technologies. To improve cross-country comparability of patent statistics, the paper advocates the use of indicators based on …