The patenting activity of the top IRI Scoreboard Companies: an introductory note

Antonio Vezzani (), Fabio Montobbio, Sandro Montresor () and Gianluca Tarasconi ()
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Gianluca Tarasconi: CRIOS - Center for Research in Innovation, Organization and Strategy, Bocconi University

No JRC86166, JRC Research Reports from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: The present note contains an explorative and introductory analysis of the patenting activity exhibited by the top 100 companies of the IRI Scoreboard, and intends to identify strengths and weaknesses for its possible future extension to the whole Scoreboard. With respect to these companies, patent data are drawn from Patstat, on the basis of which patent families are built up, and crossed with other data on their R&D investments. Both the R&D and the patent applications of the investigated sample of companies increase over time. At the same time, important sector specificities in the R&D-patent relationship have been found. The analysis of the technological competences of the overall sample yields promising results. A first examination of the IPC classes of the patent applications suggests a certain concentration in the kind of technological knowledge that companies master. The analysis of the knowledge base and, more specifically, the companies' involvement in the creation of key enabling technologies (KETs) also highlights that important sector specificities go along with firm specific factors. All-in-all augmenting the Scoreboard data with company level patent information appears to be an interesting extension to be pursued.

Keywords: patents; technological profile; KETS; R&D; IRI Scoreboard companies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O30 O31 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2014-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ind, nep-ino, nep-ipr, nep-pr~ and nep-sbm
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