The report provides a descriptive analysis of the patterns of technological specialization at the level of broad geographical areas and countries, using patent data as the main indicator of inventive performance. Using data from PATSTAT for the EPO, WIPO, USPTO and Triadic patents, it computes...

This paper examines the empirical dynamics of countries' technological specialization in six technology fields using distribution dynamics, a methodology involving non-parametric estimation of probability distributions and Markov stochastic kernels for each field. Innovation in all the fields is...