This study compares the publication and patent performance of selected medical research locations in five countries. The bibliometric indicators reveal that mostly the U.S. locations, above all Harvard University, have the highest score in the rankings in terms of quantity and quality of their...

Die IuK-Wirtschaft ist eine Schlüsselbranche für die technologische Leistungsfähigkeit. Sie gehört zum einen selbst sowohl in der Industrie als auch im Bereich der Dienstleistungen zu den besonders innovativen Sektoren, zum anderen trägt der Einsatz von innovativen IuK-Technologien zu...

Global innovations have been on the rise in the last decade. About 4.5% of all transnational patent filings are global innovations, i.e. research projects that are handled by teams in different continents, and the number has grown quite significantly since the 1990s. Global innovations have also...

This paper deals with the question of changing relations between business R&D (BERD), patents and output measures like value added and productivity (macro level) as well as EBIT and market capitalization (micro level) to analyze long-term/secular effects of technological change at different...