The purpose was to analyze innovation in a micro and small business (MSB) metallic frames manufacturing process located … innovation and applied technology in the context of a sustainable productive chain. Thus, in the methodological approach, a data … were studied. The proposed research method was a qualitative approach. As a result, a diagnosis of innovation in the …

Patent statistics represent a critical tool for scholars, statisticians and policy makers interested in innovation and … intellectual property rights. Many analyses are based on heterogeneous methods delineating the inventors’ or firms’ patent … solution to automatically retrieve inventors in large patent datasets (PATSTAT). The solution we propose reduces the usual …

close scrutiny of both patent classes and patents, the actors in the new classes, as well as in the original class, are then …, aimed to make a methodological contribution to the literature, which has emerged on the systemic nature of innovation. The … method involves broadening out from a starting point in a specific patent class, which corresponds as closely as possibly to …