The increasingly systemic nature of innovation activities requires the development of
appropriate and reliable indicators that accurately reflect interactions between actors in the …

This paper investigates the relevance of co-patents–ie patents applied for by different
assignees–as an indicator of Open Innovation. Recently the importance of collaborative …

Innovation processes are often interactive because the actors involved require
complementary knowledge assets. Given the potentially lower institutional proximity (in …

Based on inventor-author analysis, we describe a matching and disambiguation procedure
for identifying the tacit university-industry collaborations in Chinese patents. We then make a …

The paper surveys recent empirical research on academic patenting in Europe, with
particular emphasis on efforts to quantify the relevance of the phenomenon on the basis of …

Recent political initiatives and changes in the intellectual property rights systems of
European countries call for improved evaluation methods. The aim of this article is to present …

Our study examines whether patent applications with international collaborations are more
likely to be awarded a US patent than applications without. The analysis focuses on the …

European universities and public research organizations (PROs) contribute substantially to
their countries' overall inventive activity, but are far from being exclusive owners of the …

This paper examines the potential pitfalls for academic research associated with goal
displacements in the implementation of goals and indicators of research commercialization …

This paper explores three novel research questions. First, is an increase in the number of
countries involved in ownership of a co-patent an effective way to enhance patent quality …