Patent statistics: deciphering a `real' versus a `pseudo' proxy of innovation
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Patent statistics have fascinated economists concerned about innovation for a long time. However, fundamental questions remain as to whether or not patent statistics represent the real state of innovation. As Griliches pointed out, substantial questions involve: What aspects of economic activities do patent statistics actually capture? And, what would we like them to measure? He pointed out that these statistics can be a mirage appearing to provide a great number of objective and reliable proxies for innovation. This paper aims to address some of these questions by making a comparative evaluation of the representability of patent statistics in four levels of the innovation process, using as examples research and development (R&D) in Japan's printer and photovoltaic solar cell (PV) industries over the last two decades. Furthermore, this research provides a new set of patent statistics which could be considered a more reliable proxy for innovation. Keywords: Patent statistics; US Foreign Priority Patents; Pseudo proxy of innovation; Patentometrics
Publication Name: Technovation
Subject: High technology industry
ISSN: 0166-4972
Year: 2001
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Innovation diffusion: research agenda for developing economies
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This paper reviews the literature on innovation to build an agenda for research on innovation diffusion in developing countries. The main ideas on innovation diffusion are discussed, aiming at identifying the key aspects that determine the introduction and development of new technologies in an economy. Analysis of the literature suggests that innovation diffusion depends on three contextual aspects that are economy and government, technology strategies of firms, and management of innovation. Based on this analysis, four areas for research on the subject are identified, aiming at increasing the knowledge about mechanisms and approaches of innovation diffusion in developing countries. Keywords: Innovation; R&D policy; Developing countries; Literature survey
Publication Name: Technovation
Subject: High technology industry
ISSN: 0166-4972
Year: 2001
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Sociometric location and innovation: how the social network intervenes between the structural position of early adopters and changes in the power map
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The findings of this study reveals that an entrepreneur-owner withdrew his support from new implementation when it increased the power of a few core actors defined, actors with greater technical skills and know-how.
Publication Name: Technovation
Subject: High technology industry
ISSN: 0166-4972
Year: 2001
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