The paper explores the link from firm size and market concentration to patenting and R&D in a sample of manufacturing firms in Denmark. The Schumpeterian notion of firm size and market concentration suggests that the combined effects by these structural determinants of industrial innovation are...

This paper explores the relation between patenting activity and market structure in the Danish manufacturing industries using data from a recently developed database containing accounting information on a sample of patenting firms in Denmark. Market structure by concentration and firm size in...

Until recently, data on the Danish industry that link patent data with industry and firm characteriscs have been difficult to come by, and therefore the database presented in this paper is among the first containing accounting data of patenting firms in Danmark.