This study is a quantitative analysis of Japanese patent information to examine the changes in the nature and the outcome of universityindustry collaborations (UICs) following the enactment of UIC policies in the late 1990s. By considering UIC patents not only in joint universityindustry patent...

This paper presents the results of a comprehensive analysis of the innovative activities of the entire population of Japanese firms by using a linked dataset of Establishment and Enterprise Census and the IIP Patent Database (JPO patent application data). As of 2006, it was found that about 1.4%...