Technological innovation activities in the EU: a new perspective

Antonio Vezzani, Petros Gkotsis, Hector Hernandez and Pietro Moncada Paterno Castello ()
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Hector Hernandez: European Commission - JRC, https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/index_en
Pietro Moncada Paterno Castello: European Commission - JRC, https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/index_en
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Pietro Moncada-Paternò-Castello

No JRC116219, JRC Research Reports from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: In many EU countries, a high proportion of local inventions are owned by foreign companies. On the contrary, in few countries the number of patents owned is much higher than the local inventions. Companies from Germany and the US are the most frequent foreign owners of patents invented in EU countries. Concentration of patents across companies changes largely from one country to the other. Differences between local inventions and patent ownership, as well as their concentration within countries matter for Innovation policies aiming at closing the EU gap of knowledge creation and technology diffusion.

Keywords: patents; inventor; ownership; technological innovation; innovation policy; industrial policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-04
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