collective action in NST. -- science-technology relation ; emerging field ; nanotechnology ; patent quality ; inventive … inventors in the NST using multiple indicators. We clustered patents in three groups according to the scientific curricula of … the inventors. The first two groups are composed by patents whose inventors all are authors of at least one scientific …

nanomaterials. We analyse European Patent Office data at the German district level (NUTS-3) on applications for nanomaterial patents …&D on the production of nanomaterial patents. Moreover, we find a positive interaction between them which hints at the …

The patent landscape, like a garden, can tell you much about its designers and users; their motivations, biases and … general interests. And while both patent landscapes and gardens may appear to the casual observer as refined and ordered, an …, thickets and trolls. As this article illustrates, patent landscapes are dynamic and have been forced to continually evolve in …

seeks to assess whether nanotechnology is likely to become a GPT, which is sometimes assumed though not necessarily … documented. Based on a survey of existing literature, the paper will explore the extent to which nanotechnology addresses three … primary characteristics of a GPT: pervasiveness, innovation spawning, and improvement. The paper will draw on patent and …

Rapid technological advances and commercialisation of the emerging field of nanotechnology will challenge traditional … Trade Organisation's Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement as a global regulatory devide for nanotechnology …, and questions the applicability of the Agreement with respect to current and future nanotechnology applications. With the …

, and among these the problem of the most appropriate form of patent protection makes the great challenge. Nanotechnology is … biotechnology and nanotechnology if compared with inventions of other technologies. Such higher standards show that patent law …, nanotechnology forms the main area of technological innovation. Genetic altering of various products and live organisms hopefully …