In this paper we explore the relationship between innovative firms that patent technology related to Industry 4.0 and … their economic performance. By applying the new patent cartography developed by the EPO that identifies firm's 4.0 patents … Panel Model suggest that 4.0 patent stock is positively associated to sales and that this effect is significantly larger …

EPO Worldwide Patent Statistical Database PATSTAT. Based on the final dataset, covering about 1,700 world’s top corporate … R&D investors and their patenting activity, we find that about one-fifth focus their patent-relevant R&D activity in …-based technological advantages to expand their market penetration (HBE strategy). With patent data from the late 2010s, we find a further …

remaining career. We use European patent data for a period of 32 years for 1240 German inventors. The patent data are linked … of inventors applying for the first patent after completing education or being in the highest quartile of citations … received for the first patent. The higher career productivity seems to be a consequence of higher individual ability rather …

in the context of the US government’s procurement of R&D. We link tender, contract, patent, and office records to the …