Department of Civil, Energy, Environmental and Material Engineering, Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Via Zehender, Località Feo di Vito, 89122 Reggio Calabria, Italy.
Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, University of Calabria, Via Pietro Bucci, Cubo 46/C, Ponte Carrabile, 87036 Rende, Italy.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Feb 24;20(5):4100. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20054100.
The healthcare industry at large is used as a case study to suggest a methodological technique for evaluating patent citation networks to analyze cross-country creativity/knowledge flows. It intends to provide insight on the following research issues: (a) how to examine cross-national creative/learning flows; and (b) have nations with present patent owners profited from patent acquisitions? The research field at hand is currently under-explored, justifying the motivation for conducting this investigation, even though it has economic relevance in innovation patterns worldwide. The analysis of over 14,023 firms has shown that: (a) owners have acquired patents across borders, and (b) acquired patents (granted between 2013 and 2017) are cited by later patents (2018-2022). The methodology and findings are transferable to other industries. They can be used by managers and policymakers to (a) assist businesses in predicting innovation trajectories and (b) assist governments in designing and putting into action more effective policies that foster patented innovations in sectors that are deemed to be relevant to the national interest, thanks to the adoption of a new, complementary theoretical viewpoint that merges the micro- and macro-economic perspectives of citation flows.
该研究以医疗保健行业为例，提出了一种评估专利引文网络的方法技术，以分析跨国界的创造力/知识流动。它旨在为以下研究问题提供深入了解：(a) 如何检验跨国界的创新/学习流动；以及(b) 拥有现有专利所有者的国家是否从专利收购中获益？当前，这一研究领域的研究还不够充分，这也是开展这项调查的动机，尽管它在全球创新模式中具有经济意义。对超过 14023 家公司的分析表明：(a) 所有者已经跨国界收购了专利，以及(b) 收购的专利（授予时间为 2013 年至 2017 年）被后来的专利（2018 年至 2022 年）引用。该方法和研究结果可应用于其他行业。管理人员和政策制定者可以利用它们：(a) 帮助企业预测创新轨迹，以及(b) 协助政府设计和实施更有效的政策，促进被认为与国家利益相关的部门的专利创新，这要归功于采用了一种新的、互补的理论观点，该观点融合了微观和宏观经济视角的引文流动。
