The dynamics of global R&amp;D collaboration networks in ICT: Does China catch up with the US?

Scherngell, Thomas; Rohde, Charlotte; Neuländtner, Martina

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0237864

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“…Unlike traditional reviews, a bibliometric review is a systematic analytical tool that helps researchers determine the most influential patents by employing a citation network analysis perspective (26). Networks are composed of 2 elements, nodes (patents or patent assignees) and edges (27). The edge directions of the citation network shift the research focus from a single patent to a citation relationship.…”

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What, Where, When and How of COVID-19 Patents Landscape: A Bibliometrics Review

Liu

Zhang

et al. 2022

Front. Med.

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Two years after COVID-19 came into being, many technologies have been developed to bring highly promising bedside methods to help fight this epidemic disease. However, owing to viral mutation, how far the promise can be realized remains unclear. Patents might act as an additional source of information for informing research and policy and anticipating important future technology developments. A comprehensive study of 3741 COVID-19-related patents (3,543 patent families) worldwide was conducted using the Derwent Innovation database. Descriptive statistics and social network analysis were used in the patent landscape. The number of COVID-19 applications, especially those related to treatment and prevention, continued to rise, accompanied by increases in governmental and academic patent assignees. Although China dominated COVID-19 technologies, this position is worth discussing, especially in terms of the outstanding role of India and the US in the assignee collaboration network as well as the outstanding invention portfolio in Italy. Intellectual property barriers and racist treatment were reduced, as reflected by individual partnerships, transparent commercial licensing and diversified portfolios. Critical technological issues are personalized immunity, traditional Chinese medicine, epidemic prediction, artificial intelligence tools, and nucleic acid detection. Notable challenges include balancing commercial competition and humanitarian interests. The results provide a significant reference for decision-making by researchers, clinicians, policymakers, and investors with an interest in COVID-19 control.

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What, Where, When and How of COVID-19 Patents Landscape: A Bibliometrics Review

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et al. 2022

Front. Med.

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“…The empirical strategy employed in this study follows a large body of previous empirical research using international patent applications for empirically tracing R&D activities and collaboration networks (see, e.g., [ 27 , 39 , 40 ], among many others). Patents grant a property right securing the patent owner a return on R&D investments [ 20 ], and are widely used indicators in innovation research as marker for new knowledge resolving from R&D activities with a commercial application perspective ([ 41 , 42 ]).…”

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“…Such public programmes come into play as they are considered as substantial drivers for innovations, for competition in the industry and for economic productivity growth in general (see, e.g. [ 26 , 27 ]). Moreover, public R&D programmes have recently shifted their focus from single actors to joint consortia in dedicated R&D projects, with the aim to sustain knowledge circulation in the regional or national system of innovations.…”

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The geographical dynamics of global R&D collaboration networks in robotics: Evidence from co-patenting activities across urban areas worldwide

2023

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The focus of this study is on the geography of robotics Research and Development (R&D) activities. The objectives are, first, to identify hotspots in robotics R&D worldwide, and second, to characterise structures and dynamics of global robotics R&D collaboration networks through detailed geographical lenses of global urban areas. We use patents as marker for R&D activities, and accordingly focus on technologically oriented R&D, drawing on information from patents applied for between 2002 and 2016. We employ an appropriate search strategy to identify relevant robotics patents based on detailed levels of the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) and assign patents to more than 900 global urban areas based on the inventor addresses. The co-patent networks are examined from a Social Network Analysis (SNA) perspective by means of robotics co-patents, contributing to a global network where urban areas are the nodes inter-linked by joint inventive activities recorded in robotics patents. Global SNA measures illustrate structures and dynamics of the network as a whole, while local measures indicate the specific positioning and roles of urban areas in the network. The results are original in characterising the global spatial emergence of this generic new industry, highlighting prominent urban hotspots in terms of specialisation in robotics R&D, pointing to a global shift reflected by the increasing role of emerging economies, in particular China. The global robotics R&D has grown significantly both in total patenting and also in terms of R&D collaboration activities between urban areas. Also, for the networks, growth is not equally distributed, but is rather characterised by significant spatial shifts, both in terms of cities declining or climbing up the specialisation ranking, but even more in terms of the spatial network structure.

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“…In economics and regional science, network analytical approaches have recently garnered increased interest in regard to the dynamics of global research, innovation networks and knowledge flows. 12 , 13 Adopting a network perspective shifts the emphasis from individual patents to the citation relationships between them. In order to facilitate analysis on the citations between patents, a series of patent citation networks was constructed, in which nodes represented patents while directed edges and arrows denoted citation relationships and directions.…”

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The global mRNA vaccine patent landscape

Ren

et al. 2022

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics

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In light of their quick development and low risk, mRNA vaccines are gradually replacing traditional vaccines. In order to characterize the patent landscape of mRNA vaccines, this study collated mRNA vaccine–related applications that have been registered since 1962. Accordingly, the 1852 patent families were discussed in relation to their temporal distribution, geographic scope, organizational assignees, and co–patenting activities. mRNA vaccines were shown to demonstrate promise in infectious disease, cancer immunotherapy, and allergic disease, with a focus on lipid nanoparticles. Notably, these vaccines are being developed against a backdrop of fierce industrial competition and intensive collaboration with a rise in applications. The findings of this study highlighted cutting–edge inventions, key players, and collaboration dynamics among institutions. By understanding the landscape of mRNA vaccine patents, researchers and those in industry may better comprehend the latest trends in this area, which may also assist relevant decision–making by academics, government officials, and industrial leaders.

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The dynamics of global R&D collaboration networks in ICT: Does China catch up with the US?

Cited by 12 publications

References 58 publications

What, Where, When and How of COVID-19 Patents Landscape: A Bibliometrics Review

What, Where, When and How of COVID-19 Patents Landscape: A Bibliometrics Review

The geographical dynamics of global R&D collaboration networks in robotics: Evidence from co-patenting activities across urban areas worldwide

The global mRNA vaccine patent landscape

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