Die IuK-Wirtschaft ist eine Schlüsselbranche für die technologische Leistungsfähigkeit. Sie gehört zum einen selbst sowohl in der Industrie als auch im Bereich der Dienstleistungen zu den besonders innovativen Sektoren, zum anderen trägt der Einsatz von innovativen IuK-Technologien zu...

Global innovations have been on the rise in the last decade. About 4.5% of all transnational patent filings are global innovations, i.e. research projects that are handled by teams in different continents, and the number has grown quite significantly since the 1990s. Global innovations have also...

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...