This paper uncovers over 10 central level and over 150 provincial/municipal level patent targets, mostly to be met by … the absence of important criteria for ensuring patent quality. Further, the overly heavy focus on just a few types of … quantitative patent targets (e.g., for patent applications and patents granted) overshadows the type of benchmarking that better …

set out to not only further systematize existing approaches investigating nanotechnology's GPT traits based on patent …

transportation. We use these data to look at how patent families and PCT international patent applications have evolved in this field … terms of the total number of patent families and PCT international patent applications in green energy technologies. Yet …

technological synthesis within the broader economy. Using data on patents and patent citations obtained from the PATSTAT …-CRIOS database, covering all patent applications made to the European Patent Office (EPO), we try to model the systemic nature of …