-industry technology transfer ; intellectual property rights …

should recognize that technology spillover effects of FDI do not occur without greater absorptive capacity. Attracting FDI is …

: USA, Japan and Europe. In each economic area, we use information from two international patent systems to construct the … technological proximity for 240 international firms. In particular, we select firms’ patents from United States Patent and … Trademarks Office (USPTO) data and European Patent Office (EPO) data. In order to compute the technological proximity, we follow …

the European Patent Office by companies in the remit of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR). We also aim at moving … Patent Office between 1985 and 2014. We employ a new matched patent-firm data set provided by the Bureau Van Dijk: ORBIS … become progressively younger on average. At the same time, we find a steady growth in the average number of 4IR patent …

in the level of inter-sectoral technology flows. In this context, technological platforms - defined as knowledge and … mechanisms through which these influence inter sectoral technology spillovers, thus fostering technological shifts and … technological synthesis within the broader economy. Using data on patents and patent citations obtained from the PATSTAT …