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 paper aims to analyze topics within the international classification of goods and services (NICE classes) applied for the registration of trademarks at the EUIPO. This is accomplished by introducing a more fine-grained classification of trademarks as a "sub-section" of the rather rough NICE...

A 45U- OZS SI Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI Book Series »lnnovation Potentials« Rainer Frietsch, Margot Schuller (Eds.) Competing for Global Innovation Leadership: Innovation Systems and Policies in the USA, Europe and Asia B...