This paper investigates whether firms active in biotechnology can improve their technological performance by developing R&D activities in technology clusters. Regions that host a concentration of biotechnology activity are identified as technology clusters (level of US states, Japanese...

Determines whether faculty members engaged inpatenting activity publish less than their non-inventor colleagues and examineswhether inventors' publications differ from those of non-inventors. Data from adetailed analysis of the publication and patenting activities of facultymembers at the...

The extent to which patent-related indicators are relevant for evaluating the excellence of knowledge-generating institutions is considered.Although patent counts are now used more frequently for this purpose in the United States, this approach needs alteration in order to be applied in the...