IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/worpat/v12y1990i2p89-94.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The importance of the technological activities of the world's largest firms

Author

Listed:
  • Patel, Pari
  • Pavitt, Keith

Abstract

Using a database built on company patenting in the U.S., the Authors examine the scale and distribution of the technological activities of the world's largest manufacturing firms. The relative importance of large firms in the world's technology is analysed to determine their share of the world total in 32 technical areas, their share of total technological activities and the internationalization of technical activities.

Suggested Citation

  • Patel, Pari & Pavitt, Keith, 1990. "The importance of the technological activities of the world's largest firms," World Patent Information, Elsevier, vol. 12(2), pages 89-94.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:worpat:v:12:y:1990:i:2:p:89-94
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0172-2190(90)90172-H
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Van Reenen, John, 1997. "Why has Britain had slower R&D growth?," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 26(4-5), pages 493-507, December.
    2. Jacobsson, Staffan & Oskarsson, Christer & Philipson, Joakim, 1996. "Indicators of technological activities -- comparing educational, patent and R & D statistics in the case of Sweden," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 25(4), pages 573-585, June.
    3. Lee, Kong Rae, 1996. "The role of user firms in the innovation of machine tools: The Japanese case," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 25(4), pages 491-507, June.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:worpat:v:12:y:1990:i:2:p:89-94. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/654/description#description .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.