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Large Innovating Firms and Patent Management: Challenges for SMEs’ Managers and IP Officials in Catching-up Economies

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Title Large Innovating Firms and Patent Management: Challenges for SMEs’ Managers and IP Officials in Catching-up Economies
 
Creator Mendonca, Sandro
 
Subject Large firms
technological diversification
patents
strategic IP management
 
Description 281-286
Intellectual property management has become a centrepiece of global corporate strategy. A key characteristic of large innovating firms today is the diversified nature of their technology portfolio. Patents in new generic technologies such as information & communication technologies, drugs & biotechnology and new materials have soared since the early 1980s. This is also true for unrelated industries, a phenomenon known as technological diversification. This paper focuses on the evolution of empirical patterns in patenting by the largest industrial companies from Europe, Japan and the US. Implications of this multi-technology trend for IP offices and small and medium-sized firms from catching-up countries are explored.
 
Date 2009-03-31T11:11:08Z
2009-03-31T11:11:08Z
2005-07
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0971-7544
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3662
 
Language en_US
 
Publisher CSIR
 
Source JIPR Vol.10(4) [July 2005]