Firms' patenting and collective cumulative knowledge: evidence from the largest R&D investors in the world

E Cefis, N Grassano, M Tubiana - Industry and Innovation, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The article discusses R&D investments' efficiency and intellectual property rights
(IPR)'suitability. There is a debate about whether IPR systems balance private knowledge …

The case of sleeping beauties in nanotechnology: a study of potential breakthrough inventions in emerging technologies

EM Tur, E Bourelos, M McKelvey - The Annals of Regional Science, 2022 - Springer
This study aims to determine whether innovation depends on long-term patterns of
interactions in technology and science, using patents in nanotechnology. The previous …

Local and nonlocal knowledge typologies: technological complexity in the Irish knowledge space

A Whittle - European Planning Studies, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This paper advances a measure of knowledge complexity to analyse for Ireland whether
more complex knowledge is generated by local or foreign firms. Information on assignees …