“…Through these works, a large number of inter‐ or intra‐regional technology transfer issues (e.g., networks, determinants, and effects) predominantly in national scope were revealed (Drivas & Economidou, ; Wang, Pan, Ning, Li, & Chen, ; Zhang et al, ). A surprising finding, which is different from what is found for research at the organization level, is that databases at the regional level were consistently based on the patent transactions including licensing or transferring (Marco et al, ; Sun, ; Sun & Cao, ; Sun & Grimes, ). Unfortunately, we have not observed any studies at the city level so far.…”