It is the core argument of this paper that technological development in China is not suffering from a lack of innovative capacity or human resources, but from a mismatch of research supply and demand. It is suggested that the expansion of successful domestic knowledge generation beyond a limited...

Measuring the output of men and women in science and technology has previously been mostly restricted to case studies or small-scale surveys. Based on an analysis of patent and publication databases, this paper applies a methodology to systematically assign the gender to the names of inventors...

The Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics is a cutting-edge collection of specially commissioned contributions highlighting not only the broad scope but also the common ground between all branches of this prolific and fast developing field of economics.

[Einleitung ...] Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, die Vor- und Nachteile des Patentsystems aus ökonomischer Sicht zu beschreiben und die Unterschiede des europäischen und amerikanischen Systems in Bezug auf Patentierung von CIE herauszuarbeiten. Hierbei wird vor allem auch auf die...

[Einleitung] Unternehmen sind die zentralen Akteure eines Innovationssystems und bestimmen wesentlich die Innovationsleistung einer Volkswirtschaft. Sie identifizieren den Bedarf an Neuerungen bei ihren Kunden, greifen neue Forschungsergebnisse aus der Wissenschaft auf und bringen auf Basis...

Empirical evidence shows that the distribution of patent applications is highly skewed in terms of company size, with a few large enterprises being responsible for the majority of patent applications. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), on the other hand, are important players in national...

This study includes two expert reports, which are based on each other. At the core of the first expertise is the analysis of the patent application structures within the technological field of mechanical engineering and their evolution over time at an international level. Secondly, building on...