set out to not only further systematize existing approaches investigating nanotechnology's GPT traits based on patent …Scientific literature postulates that nanotechnology is to be considered as general purpose technology (GPT … nanotechnology's research output to the ones of ICT as accepted GPT and of the combustion engine as a non- GPT, representing an upper …

. The data matches firm level accounting data with information on the patents that those firms and their subsidiaries have … applied for at the European Patents Office. We describe the data in detail. -- International investment and multinational …

developing ones, in which patents are proportionally rare. In this sense, it's applied an empirical model based in the Jaffe …'s (1989) knowledge production function to Brazilian regions. The model uses patents as a proxy for the innovative output and … innovation measured by patents, and, similarly, a relation between patenting activity of the firms and local academic research …

; Patents ; Nanotechnology … countries in the field of nanotechnology affect the development of inventive activities by US multinational companies (MNCs). We … identify the most active US-based MNCs in nanotechnology-related patenting and examine location decisions of these companies …

After many years of tremendous growth, the patent activities in nanotechnology have slightly decreased and the growth …, the decrease of patents should not be interpreted as the end of the growth of nanotechnology, but rather as an … of publication numbers in this field is slowing down. With these patterns nanotechnology exhibits typical characteristics …