Does the nano-patent ‘Gold rush’ lead to entrepreneurial-driven growth? Some policy lessons from China and Japan

Baglieri, Daniela; Césaroni, Fabrizio; Orsi, Luciano

doi:10.1016/j.technovation.2014.07.009

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“…universities and other research institutions) and the national government in motivating technological innovation are the main focal areas of this research stream. In this light, dong Lee & Park (2006), for instance, demonstrate the significance of government financial support in the early stages of R&D in their analysis of the Korean electronics and mechanical industries, while Baglieri et al (2014) underline the difference in technology policies enacted by the governments of China (pursuing an anchor-tenant model) and Japan (driving an industry-oriented model) in promoting their respective nanotechnology innovation systems.…”

Section: Different Views On Innovation Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A bibliometric review on innovation systems and ecosystems: a research agenda

Suominen

Seppänen

Dedehayir

2019

EJIM

141

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Purpose The ecosystem perspective on innovation and business has emerged as the secret sauce of innovative organizations. While its theoretical foundations are premised on innovation system literature, the broad adoption of the ecosystem concept has resulted in conceptual ambiguity. The purpose of this paper is to tackle the ambiguous use of innovation ecosystem terminology and structure a conceptual frame for the field, identifying definitions of an innovation ecosystem and how the concept has been established in previous literature. Design/methodology/approach This paper examines the ambiguous use of terminology by reviewing the literature with bibliometric coupling and co-citation analysis by which thematic differences in ecosystem literature were identified. The study gathered the scientific publications from Thomson Reuters Web of Sciences Core Collection (n=4,681) from 1990 to 2015. Findings Six major bibliometrically coupled clusters were identified, of which the three largest clusters are innovation system studies, regional innovation studies and technological innovation studies. In addition, further analysis shows an emerging cluster that is focused on ecosystems, having its roots in eight seminal papers. This ecosystem research cluster includes seven sub-clusters, such as innovation ecosystem studies, business ecosystem studies and studies focusing on ecosystem development. Research limitations/implications The authors’ approach highlights how a lot of recent ecosystem studies actually belong to previous, well-developed research streams. However, there is also a separate, emergent research stream that includes the innovation and ecosystem studies. As a research implication, the paper concludes by suggesting the research agenda for further studies. Originality/value Even though literature on innovation systems and ecosystems is extensive literature, no studies have captured the emergence of the ecosystems approach and its relation with the systems of innovation literature.

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Section: Different Views On Innovation Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A bibliometric review on innovation systems and ecosystems: a research agenda

Suominen

Seppänen

Dedehayir

2019

EJIM

141

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“…Shapira et al [25] analyzed early corporate entry and activity in graphene technology by using evidence from patent activity across country and application lines. Baglieri et al [26] compared the patent activities in graphene landscapes between China and Japan, and intended to identify the effect of the organization of the nanotechnology industry. Besides, limited attention has been paid to outlining the development trends of graphene-related patents.…”

Section: Patent Analysis For Graphene Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) defined "graphene" as "a single carbon layer of the graphite structure". Previous studies have used "graphene" as a search term in bibliometric or patent queries [25,26]. We used a broader criterion for the selection of graphene patents.…”

Section: Retrieval Of Patent Informationmentioning

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Obtaining a Sustainable Competitive Advantage from Patent Information: A Patent Analysis of the Graphene Industry

Yang

Liu

2018

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Graphene serves as the most disruptive material in the twenty-first century and plays an unsubstitutable role in solving the sustainable development problems of energy crises, water shortages, and environmental pollution. Recently, obtaining a sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) in the field of graphene has gained increasing attention from both researchers and practitioners. However, few attempts have been made to summarize the SCA of this field by applying patent information. Basing on a patent-based multi-level perspective (MLP), this study aims to develop an approach to identify SCA in the target technological area by conducting a patent review from the comprehensive perspectives of the macro landscape, meso socio-technical system, and micro niches, and then integrate patent analysis with technology life cycle (TLC) theory to examine patents involving global technological competition. The effectiveness of the approach is verified with a case study on graphene. The results show that the graphene field is an emerging and fast-growing technological field, with an increasing number of patents over the year. The TLC of graphene technology demonstrated an approximate S shape, with China, the U.S., Korea, and Japan filing the largest number of graphene patents. Evidenced by Derwent Manual Codes, we found an increase in consideration given to technological application and material preparation topics over time, and research hotspots and fronts that have SCA. In terms of a leading country or region with SCA, the U.S., with a high foreign patent filing rate, large number of high forward citation patents, strong assignees’ competitive position, and large number of high-strength patents, was still the most powerful leader, with a higher SCA in the graphene industry. Korea also obtained a relatively higher SCA and will be a promising competitor in this field. Although China was shown to be catching-up very rapidly in the total number of graphene patents, the apparent innovation gaps in the foreign patent filing rate, high value patents, and Industry-University-Research Collaboration will obviously hamper Chinese catch-up efforts for obtaining SCA. As for patentees, the most powerful leaders with a higher SCA represented by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, International Business Machines Corp, and Nanotek Instruments Inc were identified. In addition, most of the high strength patents were owned by the above patentees. Further, valuable contributions to the understanding of SCA in graphene technology were summarized. First, the proposed patent-based MLP provides a new and comprehensive analytical framework for review research, as well as SCA analysis, and extends its research perspectives. Second, it introduces patent indicators to the previous MLP model, and provides a new theoretical perspective for the study of technological innovation in the previous MLP model. Third, this paper employs the TLC theory to explore the dynamic SCA in the given technology field, which further develops the concept of the MLP model from the temporal dimension. Finally, future research directions were demonstrated. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first systematic review of this field using patent analysis, comprehensively acknowledging the current technological competition and development in the graphene field and that of the future, and can be applied to various other emerging technology fields.

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“…This code is widely used as a nano-related patent retrieval in several studies (Baglieri et al 2014;Dang et al 2010;Kumar and Desai 2014;Leitch et al 2012;Ozcan and Islam 2014;Porter and Youtie 2008;Scheu et al 2006). Even though this is a new classification for nanotechnology-related patents, nano-related inventions granted in the 80s that weren't classified as such were re-classified by patent authorities (Ozcan and Islam 2014).…”

Section: Knowledge Basementioning

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Multi-disciplinarity breeds diversity: the influence of innovation project characteristics on diversity creation in nanotechnology

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Nanotechnology is an emerging and promising field of research. Creating sufficient technological diversity among its alternatives is important for the long-term success of nanotechnologies, as well as for other emerging technologies. Diversity prevents early lock-in, facilitates recombinant innovation, increases resilience, and allows market growth. Creation of new technological alternatives usually takes place in innovation projects in which public and private partners often collaborate. Currently, there is little empirical evidence about which characteristics of innovation projects influence diversity. In this paper we study the influence of characteristics of EU-funded nanotechnology projects on the creation of technological diversity. In addition to actor diversity and the network of the project, we also include novel variables that have a plausible influence on diversity creation: the degree of multi-disciplinarity of the project and the size of the joint knowledge base of project partners. We apply topic modelling (Latent Dirichlet allocation) as a novel method to categorize technological alternatives. Using an ordinal logistic regression model, our results show that the largest contribution to diversity comes from the multidisciplinary nature of a project. The joint knowledge base of project partners and the geographical distance between them were positively associated with technological diversity creation. In contrast, the number and diversity of actors and the degree of clustering showed a negative association with technological diversity creation. These results extend current micro-level explanations of how the diversity of an emerging technology is created. The contribution of this study could also be helpful for policy makers to influence the level of diversity in a technological field, and hence to contribute to survival of emerging technologies.

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Does the nano-patent ‘Gold rush’ lead to entrepreneurial-driven growth? Some policy lessons from China and Japan

Cited by 20 publications

References 40 publications

A bibliometric review on innovation systems and ecosystems: a research agenda

A bibliometric review on innovation systems and ecosystems: a research agenda

Obtaining a Sustainable Competitive Advantage from Patent Information: A Patent Analysis of the Graphene Industry

Multi-disciplinarity breeds diversity: the influence of innovation project characteristics on diversity creation in nanotechnology

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