Thesis (MDF (Business Management))--Stellenbosch University, 2008. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Economic development depends on a number of variables, including the ability of the economy to innovate technologically. Innovation depends to a large extent on the value, both qualitative and quantitative, of the research and development (R&D) happening in an economy. R&D in turn require various activities and inputs, including human resources, capital and infrastructure. The focus of this study is on the alternatives available to the public sector for funding public R&D. Most of the current public R&D infrastructure comes from the fiscus, which is strained under the pressure of many competing and immediate needs. An alternate model for funding public R&D infrastructure is that of public private partnerships (PPPs), which are private sector-supported initiatives for delivery of public goods and services. These are used all over the world to deliver public services with a high degree of success in sectors such as health (hospitals and services) and transport (roads, airports). This study looks at how this model can be applied in the delivery of public R&D infrastructure, which has not been popular in South Africa to date. A questionnaire was designed to look at five key areas for investigation with regard to R&D infrastructure, namely: the type of infrastructure as a determinant for the success of the PPP; the perception regarding the risk of the transaction; the incentives available to the private participants; the availability of capital in the market; and the effect of regulations on the transaction. These are investigated through the use of a questionnaire to get responses from people who have an understanding of PPP transactions in the country. The results show that R&D PPPs are possible and should be explored. One of the main reasons why they are currently not popular is because they are under-explored. The respondents felt that: the PPP regulations may have to be changed or adapted to be effective in the administration of PPP transactions; the risks for R&D PPPs seem to be high; sufficient capital exists to fund these transactions; the type of the infrastructure being financed is not necessarily a hindrance; and there are sufficient incentives for the private sector to participate in these transactions. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Ekonomiese ontwikkeling hang af van 'n aantal veranderlikes, onder andere die ekonomie se vermoë om tegnologies te innoveer. Sodanige innovasie word in 'n groot mate bepaal deur die waarde, beide kwalitatief en kwantitatief, van die navorsing en ontwikkeling wat binne die ekonomie plaasvind. Navorsing en ontwikkeling vereis weer verskeie aktiwiteite en insette, waaronder menslike hulpbronne, kapitaal en infrastruktuur. Hierdie studie fokus op alternatiewe wat vir die openbare sektor beskikbaar is ten opsigte van die befondsing van openbare navorsing en ontwikkeling. Die huidige openbare navorsing- en ontwikkelinginfrastruktuur kom hoofsaaklik van die fiskus, wat weens verskeie mededingende en dringende behoeftes onder druk is. 'n Publieke-private venootskap (PPV) bied 'n moontlike alternatiewe model vir befondsing van 'n openbare navorsing- en ontwikkelinginfrastruktuur. Openbare goedere en dienste word hiervolgens gelewer deur middel van inisiatiewe wat deur die privaatsektor ondersteun word. Die model word wêreldwyd baie suksesvol aangewend in sektore soos gesondheid (hospitale en dienste) en vervoer (paaie, lughawens). Hierdie studie ondersoek hoe die model toegepas kan word in die skep van 'n openbare navorsing- en ontwikkelinginfrastruktuur in Suid-Afrika, hoewel dit tot dusver nie hier gewild was nie. 'n Vraelys is ontwerp om vyf sleutelareas ten opsigte van navorsing- en ontwikkelinginfrastruktuur te ondersoek, naamlik: tipe infrastruktuur as 'n determinant vir die sukses van die PPV; persepsie aangaande risiko met betrekking tot die transaksie; aansporing wat aan private deelnemers gebied word; beskikbaarheid van kapitaal in die mark en die uitwerking van regulasies op die transaksie. Hierdie vraelys is aangewend om reaksie te verkry van persone wat begrip van publieke-private ondernemings in die land het. Die resultate wys dat PPV's binne 'n navorsing- en ontwikkelinginfrastruktuur moontlik is en verder ondersoek behoort te word. Een van die hoofredes waarom dit tans nie gewild is nie, is die gebrek aan toepaslike navorsing. Respondente het aangedui dat: PPV regulasies moontlik verander of aangepas sal moet word om effektief te wees in die administrasie van sodanige transaksies; die risiko's vir PPV's in navorsing en ontwikkeling hoog voorkom; voldoende kapitaal vir befondsing van transaksies beskikbaar is; die tipe infrastruktuur wat befondsing ontvang nie noodwendig 'n hindernis is nie en dat voldoende aansporing vir die privaatsektor gebied word om aan hierdie transaksies deel te neem.

Since the late 1990s the government of Malaysia has increased emphasis on its Intensification of Research in Priority Areas (IRPA) program, focusing scientific research in universities and government research institutes (GRIs) on activities most likely to enhance national economic performance. The IRPA’s main purpose is to fund commercially viable research for the benefit of business. However, its 2001 mid-term review showed its rates and volumes of commercialization and technology transfer (CTT) to be inadequate. This study aimed to explain the perceived low rate of adoption and commercialization of scientific knowledge in manufacturing in Malaysia by exploring the actions of companies, universities and GRIs. Two main models of technical change, the Technik and the STH ones, were used. Fieldwork was carried out in Malaysia. Purposive sampling led to selection of 60 interviewees: 23 managers and professionals from companies, 17 scientists, eight Technology Transfer Office officers, six senior research administrators, three venture capitalists, two journalists and a politician. The interviews were open-ended. It was seen that research findings were not always relevant to company interests, and companies often preferred their own or adopted, sometimes reverse-engineered, technology. Government CTT funds did not help much in with design, prototypes and pilot plants. Inadequate communication and lack of trust influenced the low uptake of research findings. The commercial relevance of much scientific research was questioned. More government support for company risk-taking appeared to be needed. Differences in attitude and poor understanding of policies and principles tended to contribute to low uptake. Managers, professional, scientists, Technology Transfer Officers, senior research administrators, venture capitalists needed more flexibility, knowledge and skills to respond to profit-driven research findings. A specifically Malaysian approach to CTT was advocated.

O desenvolvimento tecnológico e a inovação são entendidos como elementos chaves para transformar o conhecimento em riqueza e melhorar a qualidade de vida das sociedades. Nos últimos anos, a preservação ambiental ganhou destaque e organizações governamentais e não governamentais passaram a buscar soluções para os problemas ambientais da atualidade. Desta maneira, estudos sobre as inovações ambientais têm tentado entender e fomentar inovações que visam reduzir o impacto ambiental. Sendo assim, esta dissertação tem como objetivo investigar a produção de ciência e tecnologia dos inventores da Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná – UTFPR e verificar a presença da ecoinovação, para compreender sua contribuição no sistema de inovação. Tal estudo se mostra relevante uma vez que, reflete sobre a produção de ciência e tecnologia dos inventores de uma universidade tecnológica, sendo pertinente dado o papel importante da universidade na disseminação de conhecimento científico e no desenvolvimento tecnológico, e por outro lado, a ecoinovação é um debate recente e seu conceito ainda é indefinido. Assim, justifica-se pela importância do entendimento da ecoinovação e do papel da universidade no desenvolvimento tecnológico, seja pelo auxílio nas decisões de políticas públicas, bem como pela crescente demanda em orientar os resultados da universidade a serviço de maior competitividade da indústria nacional e do crescimento econômico. A metodologia baseia-se no método de estudo de caso, os procedimentos metodológicos foram exploratórios e descritivos, de natureza qualitativa e a coleta de dados foi realizada por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica, pesquisa documental e pesquisa de campo, Constatou-se, que aproximadamente 53% dos professores-inventores são da área de engenharia, reflexo da identidade de uma universidade tecnológica. A participação dos alunos inventores é proporcional entre os estudantes da graduação e pós-graduação, e existem pedidos de patente de invenção em coautoria com instituições pública e privada. Verificou-se que os artigos completos publicados em periódicos dos professores-inventores possuem citações nas bases de dados Scopus e Web of Science. Em relação à presença da ecoinovação, dos 118 pedidos de patente de invenção, 40 foram declarados ecoinovação por seus inventores, contribuindo no ganho de mais valor com menor impacto ambiental. / Technological development and innovation are understood as key elements for transforming knowledge into wealth and improving the quality of life of societies. In recent years, environmental preservation has gained prominence and governmental and non-governmental organizations have come to seek solutions to current environmental problems. In this way, studies on environmental innovations have tried to understand and foster innovations that aim to reduce the environmental impact. Thus, this dissertation aims to investigate the production of science and technology of the inventors of the Federal Technological University of Paraná - UTFPR and verify the presence of eco-innovation in order to understand its contribution to the innovation system. This study is relevant since it reflects on the production of science and technology of the inventors of a technological university, being pertinent given the important role of the university in the dissemination of scientific knowledge and technological development, and on the other hand, eco-innovation is a recent debate and its concept is still undefined. Thus, it is justified by the importance of understanding the eco-innovation and the role of the university in technological development, either by aiding in public policy decisions, as well as by the growing demand to orient the university's results in the service of greater competitiveness of national industry and economic growth. The methodology was based on the case study method, the methodological procedures were exploratory and descriptive, of a qualitative nature and the data collection was done through bibliographical research, documentary research and field research. It was found that approximately 53 % of teacher-inventors are from engineering, reflecting the identity of a technological university. The student inventors' participation is proportional among undergraduate and graduate students, and there are patent applications for co-authoring with public and private institutions. It has been found that the full papers published in the journals of the inventor-teachers are quoted in the Scopus and Web of Science databases. Regarding the presence of eco-innovation, of the 118 patent applications, 40 were declared eco-innovation by their inventors, contributing to the gain of more value with less environmental impact.

O modelo de inovação aberta proposto recentemente por Henry Chesbrough tem encorajado a transferência de tecnologia entre empresas, universidades e instituições de pesquisa. Em resposta a esse fenômeno o Brasil criou mecanismos para incentivar a transferência de tecnologia entre essas diferentes organizações pelas Leis 10.973/2004 e 11.196/2005. Assim, a maior integração entre esses agentes de inovação tecnológica levanta a necessidade de voltar maior atenção à avaliação do valor da tecnologia objeto de transferência. O objetivo da pesquisa foi descrever as principais características de processos de valoração de tecnologias desenvolvidos e utilizados por organizações científicas e tecnológicas no Paraná. Esta é uma pesquisa de natureza aplicada, qualitativa do ponto de vista da abordagem do problema, descritiva no que diz respeito aos seus objetivos e predominantemente documental em relação aos seus procedimentos técnicos. Os procedimentos metodológicos incluíram uma pesquisa bibliográfica buscando o mapeamento de características de processos de valoração de tecnologia utilizados no Brasil e no exterior, que foram levantados por meio do acesso a sítios, via internet, de importantes organizações científicas e tecnológicas e levantamentos usando instrumentos como questionário. Como resultado, verificou-se que as principais características que definem o perfil das OCTs no processo de transferência de tecnologia são: a maior abrangência do escopo da missão institucional das OCTs (maior quantidade de objetivos); maior envolvimento com atividades de pesquisa; o envolvimento de outros agentes na definição dos critérios para valoração de um ativo tecnológico (incluindo parceiros e pesquisador); adoção de maior número de tipos de contratos de transferência; e maior tempo de experiência do NIT. Adicionalmente foi possível verificar que a aderência aos métodos mais indicados na literatura não é uma característica das OCTs paranaenses, o que sinaliza um potencial para convergência das práticas atuais às melhores práticas. Como sugestão recomenda-se que as OCTs adotem como prática a oferta de diferentes tipos de contratos de transferência em suas negociações para maximizar as possibilidades de sucesso. Recomenda-se também incluir nos catálogos de patentes, além dos descritivos técnicos, redações sobre as possibilidades de aplicação das tecnologias em operações da produção de bens ou prestação de serviços. As recomendações incluem também a publicação do portfólio de projetos de pesquisa cujos objetivos sejam conceber novos produtos ou processos de produção. Este trabalho sugere também a criação de um cadastro de demandas tecnológicas, que poderia ser publicado no Relatório Formict, para que os NITs possam identificar oportunidades de transferência de tecnologia. / The open innovation model recently proposed by Henry Chesbrough has encouraged the transfer of technology between companies, universities and research institutions. In response to this phenomenon Brazil has created mechanisms to encourage technology transfer between these different organizations by Law 10,973 / 2004 and 11,196 / 2005. Thus, the further integration of these technological innovators raises the need to pay more attention to assessing the value of the transfer object technology. The objective of the research was to describe the main features of valuation processes developed technologies and used by science and technology organizations in Paraná. This is an applied research, qualitative by point of view of the problem approaching, descriptive with regard to their objectives and predominantly documental in relation to its technical procedures. The methodological procedures include a bibliographical research aiming at the mapping technology valuation process characteristics used in Brazil and abroad, which were raised through access to sites via the Internet of important scientific and technological organizations and surveys using tools such as questionnaire. As a result, it was found that the main characteristics that define the profile of the OCTs in the technology transfer process are: a more comprehensive scope of the institutional mission of the OCTs (larger number of objectives); greater involvement in research activities; the involvement of other agents on decision process of the criteria for valuing a technological assets (including partners and researcher); adoption of more types of transfer agreements; longer NIT experience. Additionally we found that adherence to the methods most indicated in the literature is not a feature of Paraná OCTs, which indicates a potential for convergence of current practices to best practices. As a suggestion it is recommended that OCTs adopt a policy of offering different types of transfer agreements in their negotiations to maximize the chances of success. It is also recommended to include in the patent catalogs, in addition to technical descriptions, information about the possibilities for the application of technologies involving the production of goods or services. The recommendations also include the publication of the portfolio of research projects whose purposes are designing new products or production processes. This work also suggests the creation of a register of technological demands, which could be published in Formict Report so that NITs might identify technology transfer opportunities.

O modelo de inovação aberta proposto recentemente por Henry Chesbrough tem encorajado a transferência de tecnologia entre empresas, universidades e instituições de pesquisa. Em resposta a esse fenômeno o Brasil criou mecanismos para incentivar a transferência de tecnologia entre essas diferentes organizações pelas Leis 10.973/2004 e 11.196/2005. Assim, a maior integração entre esses agentes de inovação tecnológica levanta a necessidade de voltar maior atenção à avaliação do valor da tecnologia objeto de transferência. O objetivo da pesquisa foi descrever as principais características de processos de valoração de tecnologias desenvolvidos e utilizados por organizações científicas e tecnológicas no Paraná. Esta é uma pesquisa de natureza aplicada, qualitativa do ponto de vista da abordagem do problema, descritiva no que diz respeito aos seus objetivos e predominantemente documental em relação aos seus procedimentos técnicos. Os procedimentos metodológicos incluíram uma pesquisa bibliográfica buscando o mapeamento de características de processos de valoração de tecnologia utilizados no Brasil e no exterior, que foram levantados por meio do acesso a sítios, via internet, de importantes organizações científicas e tecnológicas e levantamentos usando instrumentos como questionário. Como resultado, verificou-se que as principais características que definem o perfil das OCTs no processo de transferência de tecnologia são: a maior abrangência do escopo da missão institucional das OCTs (maior quantidade de objetivos); maior envolvimento com atividades de pesquisa; o envolvimento de outros agentes na definição dos critérios para valoração de um ativo tecnológico (incluindo parceiros e pesquisador); adoção de maior número de tipos de contratos de transferência; e maior tempo de experiência do NIT. Adicionalmente foi possível verificar que a aderência aos métodos mais indicados na literatura não é uma característica das OCTs paranaenses, o que sinaliza um potencial para convergência das práticas atuais às melhores práticas. Como sugestão recomenda-se que as OCTs adotem como prática a oferta de diferentes tipos de contratos de transferência em suas negociações para maximizar as possibilidades de sucesso. Recomenda-se também incluir nos catálogos de patentes, além dos descritivos técnicos, redações sobre as possibilidades de aplicação das tecnologias em operações da produção de bens ou prestação de serviços. As recomendações incluem também a publicação do portfólio de projetos de pesquisa cujos objetivos sejam conceber novos produtos ou processos de produção. Este trabalho sugere também a criação de um cadastro de demandas tecnológicas, que poderia ser publicado no Relatório Formict, para que os NITs possam identificar oportunidades de transferência de tecnologia. / The open innovation model recently proposed by Henry Chesbrough has encouraged the transfer of technology between companies, universities and research institutions. In response to this phenomenon Brazil has created mechanisms to encourage technology transfer between these different organizations by Law 10,973 / 2004 and 11,196 / 2005. Thus, the further integration of these technological innovators raises the need to pay more attention to assessing the value of the transfer object technology. The objective of the research was to describe the main features of valuation processes developed technologies and used by science and technology organizations in Paraná. This is an applied research, qualitative by point of view of the problem approaching, descriptive with regard to their objectives and predominantly documental in relation to its technical procedures. The methodological procedures include a bibliographical research aiming at the mapping technology valuation process characteristics used in Brazil and abroad, which were raised through access to sites via the Internet of important scientific and technological organizations and surveys using tools such as questionnaire. As a result, it was found that the main characteristics that define the profile of the OCTs in the technology transfer process are: a more comprehensive scope of the institutional mission of the OCTs (larger number of objectives); greater involvement in research activities; the involvement of other agents on decision process of the criteria for valuing a technological assets (including partners and researcher); adoption of more types of transfer agreements; longer NIT experience. Additionally we found that adherence to the methods most indicated in the literature is not a feature of Paraná OCTs, which indicates a potential for convergence of current practices to best practices. As a suggestion it is recommended that OCTs adopt a policy of offering different types of transfer agreements in their negotiations to maximize the chances of success. It is also recommended to include in the patent catalogs, in addition to technical descriptions, information about the possibilities for the application of technologies involving the production of goods or services. The recommendations also include the publication of the portfolio of research projects whose purposes are designing new products or production processes. This work also suggests the creation of a register of technological demands, which could be published in Formict Report so that NITs might identify technology transfer opportunities.

The founding documents for a new, democratic South Africa adopted a more inclusive and people-driven approach to innovation. The literature and policy analysis reveals a „shift‟ away from this approach to a more market-driven, exclusivist approach to innovation. R&D (research and development) and technology-driven innovation had been institutionalised at the expense of social, cultural and indigenous innovations. This „shift‟ limits the potential of innovation to benefit a wider segment of society. The absence of a „model‟ of innovation that exploits the strengths of all forms of innovation runs the risk of defeating the normative intentions of the founding innovation policies of the new, post-Apartheid and democratic South Africa. The OECD, from which South Africa „inherited‟ its notion of innovation, acknowledges the shortcomings of the technological innovation and calls for a conceptual framework that will address the shortcomings of the dominant, exclusivist notion of innovation. This inquiry was conducted to investigate an appropriate conceptual framework of innovation that would contribute towards achieving normative policy intentions of post-Apartheid South Africa. It employed a grounded theory design that used semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions, document analysis, observations and cooperative inquiry. The data analysed suggest the following propositions: 1. Thesis 1: Innovation is constrained by the dominant science and technology paradigm. 2. Thesis 2: Inclusive and integrative innovation cannot exist within an exclusivist innovation paradigm. 3. Thesis 3: Transforming an exclusivist paradigm into an inclusivist paradigm requires change at constitutive level and not just at regulatory level.4. Thesis 4: Synthesising an inclusive and integrative innovation requires creativity, open dialogue and imagination. Against the above propositions, this thesis recommends a conceptual framework that is underpinned by an inclusive and integrative paradigm. Such a framework proposes transformative actions that have potential to achieve normative policy intentions of post-Apartheid South Africa. Further research into a constitutive design for an inclusive and integrative innovation policies and practices is recommended. / Educational Studies / D. Ed. (Philosophy of Education)

Der Forschungsbericht vermittelt einen Einblick in die vielfältige, leistungsfähige Forschungslandschaft am Institut für Arbeits-, Organisations- und Sozialpsychologie.

In this thesis, I apply the sophisticated tools made available by the econometrics of panel data and treatment models to a range of different issues. In the first Chapter, an ECM model is used to test on the existence of financing constraints in firms’ investment and R&D, taken a proxy for the efficiency of market institutions and governance rules in different countries. In the second chapter we test an agency model linking pay-performance contracts of CEOS to the financial situation of a firm by using a UK panel data. In the third chapter I use a sophisticated treatment model to evaluate the effectiveness of Italian public subsidies to R&D. Finally, in the fourth chapter I try to evaluate the efficiency of Italian regional systems of public healthcare by controlling for socio-economic factors and quality of healthcare in a composite model using panel data estimation and efficient frontier techniques.<p>The first Chapter analyzes the investment behavior of a sample of R&D intensive firms which are quoted on the stock market from USA, UK and Japan for the period 1990-1998. By using an error correction model we test the elasticity of investment and R&D to cash flow in these countries to see by which measure different market institutions and corporate governance rules affects the cost of external financing. Contrary to previous studies, we find significant differences in the sensitivity to cash flow of the two types of investment, with R&D expenditure being much less sensitive than ordinary investment. This is not surprising given the more long-term nature of R&D expenditures. For what concerns the comparison between the different systems/countries, the USA stock markets confirms as the most efficient market providing outside financing at a much lower cost compared to other markets, especially for young, smaller firms.<p>The second Chapter is a joint work with Biagio Speciale. It uses the data on a panel of quoted UK firms over the period 1995–2002 to study the effects of financial leverage on managerial compensation. The change in the investors’ expectations that caused the recent collapse of the stock market tech bubble is a perfect example of natural experiment that has been used as a source of plausibly exogenous variation in the firm’s debt. The estimates show that pay-for-performance sensitivity is increasing in financial leverage, with the exception of the 10% most levered firms, giving rise at the end to a non-linear (inverted U-shape) relationship between the two variables. The chapter includes also a theoretical model accounting for this relationship where an higher leverage increases both the expected returns and the expected variance of investment returns: the first effect (determining increased pay-performance sensitivity) prevails for low leverage values and the second effect (determining decreased pay-performance sensitivity) prevails for high leverage values.<p>The third Chapter undertakes an empirical estimation of the additionality of public funding on both the propensity to initiate R&D activity and the intensity of R&D spending of Italian enterprises for the period 1998-2000, using data from the Third Community Innovation Survey and from firms' financial accounts. The chosen methodology (Endogenous Switching Type II-Tobit) takes into account the possibility that decisions about both starting an R&D activity (sample selection effect) and applying for/obtaining public funding (essential heterogeneity) are influenced by private knowledge of enterprises' idiosyncratic propensities in R&D spending. The present analysis shows that both these effects are indeed important and that they contribute to explain most of the additionality found with less sophisticated models.<p>The fourth Chapter investigates the underlying causes of variability of public health expenditure per capita (SSPC henceforth) between Italian regions. A fixed-effect panel data estimate on the SSPC (for the period 1997-2006) is used in the first part of the paper to account for regional differences in terms of physical, demographic, socio-economic characteristics and in terms of other variables that affect demand and supply of health services. In the second part, we take the ‘adjusted’ SSPC and proceed to estimate an "efficient production function" of the quality of health services through Data Envelopment Analysis. This procedure allows us to separate the share of expenditure used for the improvement of the quality from the one that can be traced only to an inefficient use of financial resources. A comparison of regional SSPC after factoring out the socio-economic factors and the quality of healthcare shows that big differences still remain and are even exacerbated, signalling big pockets of inefficiency and correspondingly a huge potential for cost savings. Finally, a preliminary analysis shows a positive correlation between the efficiency of regional public spending in healthcare and the level of social capital. / Doctorat en Sciences économiques et de gestion / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Compared to the globalized markets of goods and services, technology production has been often described as “far from globalized” and mainly concentrated in the home country of multinational enterprises. However, academics and international organizations recognize that research and development (R&D) activities are increasingly performed at the international level. In particular, the globalization of innovation is a major concern since it is at the crossroads of the rising importance of knowledge economy and the increasing international slicing of firms’ value chains. In this context, the main motivations of this thesis are to investigate the extent to which innovation takes place across national borders and to analyze the drivers of this phenomenon across countries and across industries. For this purpose, this dissertation provides new evidence on the globalization of innovation in four empirical essays using patent-based indicators.<p><p>First, the relevance of patent statistics as indicators of innovation is evaluated by studying the relationship between expenditures in R&D activities and patenting efforts. Chapter 2 decomposes this relationship at the industry level to shed light on the origins of the worldwide surge in patent applications. The empirical investigation of the R&D-patent relationship relies on a unique panel dataset composed of 18 manufacturing industries in 19 countries covering the period from 1987 to 2005, for which five broad patent indicators are developed. This study shows that patent applications at the industry level reflect not only research productivity, but also two main components of the propensity to patent which are firms’ strategic considerations: the decision to protect an invention with a patent (the “appropriability strategy”) and the number of patents filed to protect an innovation (the “filing strategy”). The comparison between the results for various patent count indicators provides also interesting insights. While some industries (computers and communication technologies) and countries (South Korea, Spain, and Poland) have experienced a drastic increase in patent applications, the ratio of priority patent applications to R&D expenditures has been generally constant. This result suggests that there has been no spurt in innovation productivity. In contrast, regional applications (filings at the United States Patent and Trademark Office or at the European Patent Office) have been increasing since the early 1990s, suggesting that the patent explosion observed in large regional patent offices is due to the greater globalization of intellectual property rights rather than a surge in research productivity. Innovative firms are increasingly targeting global markets and hence have a higher tendency to seek protection in key markets worldwide.<p><p>Chapter 3 introduces, firstly, aggregate patent-based indicators to measure the globalization of innovation production. Secondly, it describes the patterns in international technology production for a large panel dataset covering 21 industries in 29 countries from 1980 to 2005. A strong growth in the intensity of globalization of innovation is confirmed not only in terms of cross-border ownership of innovation, but also in terms of international technological collaborations. More interestingly, heterogeneity across countries and industries is observed. On the one hand, more innovative countries (or industries) do not present more globalized innovation footprint. On the other hand, the ownership of innovation is still strongly concentrated in a few countries, although its location is increasingly dispersed across the world. Thirdly, it investigates empirically two main opposing motives driving the internationalization of innovation: home-base augmenting and home-base exploiting strategies. The results show that the degree of internationalization of innovation is negatively related to the revealed technological advantage of countries across industries. Countries tend to be more technologically globalized in industrial sectors in which they are less technologically specialized. The empirical findings suggest also that countries with multidisciplinary technological knowledge are more likely to take part in international co-inventions of new technologies and to be attractive for foreign innovative firms. This aggregated patent-based analysis provides additional evidence that globalization of innovation is a means of acquiring competences abroad that are lacking at home, suggesting that home-base augmenting motives matter in the globalization of innovation production. By contrast, the internationalization of innovation does not seem to be purely market-driven since large economies are not the target of foreign innovative firms and international patenting is more related to international competitiveness of country-industry pairs than to the direction of trade flows.<p><p>While the previous chapter studies the globalization of innovation of a country with the rest of world, Chapter 4 aims at explaining who collaborates with whom in the international production of technology. In particular, the impact of technological distance between partner’s economies is investigated for a panel dataset covering international co-inventions between 29 countries in 21 industries between 1988 and 2005. The descriptive analysis highlights that the overall growth in internationalization of innovation is due to both the increase in the number of international innovative actors and the rise of the average intensity of collaboration. The empirical findings then suggest that the two main arguments related to technological distance – ‘similarity versus diversity’ – can be reconciled by taking an industry approach. Indeed, the estimation results show that the impact of technological distance is twofold on the intensity of collaborative innovation at industry level. On the one hand, the more similar the industry-specific knowledge of two countries (low technological distance within the industry), the more easily they collaborate by sharing common industrial knowledge. On the other hand, the more different their non-industry-specific knowledge (high technological distance outside the scope of the industry), the more they collaborate to gain access to broad and interdisciplinary expertise. It suggests that the relative absorptive capacity between partner’s economies and the search for novel and complementary knowledge are key drivers of the globalization of innovation. Moreover, the results confirm the moderating effect of non-technological distance factors (spatial proximity, ease of communication, institutional proximity, and overall economic ties) in cross-border innovative relationships. <p><p>The topic of Chapter 5 is the cost-benefit analysis of the creation of a new ‘globalized’ patent: the EU Patent (formerly known as Community Patent) which consists in a single patent covering the entire EU territory for both application procedure and legal enforcement after grant. The objective of this chapter is threefold: (i) simulate the budgetary consequences in terms of renewal fees’ income for the European and national patent offices; (ii) evaluate the implications for the business sector in terms of absolute and relative fees; (iii) assess the total economic impact for the most important actors of the European patent system. Based on an econometric model explaining the determinants of the maintenance rate of patents, the simulations suggest that – with a sound renewal fee structure – the EU patent could generate more income for nearly all patent offices than under the current status quo. It would, at the same time, substantially reduce the relative patenting costs for applicants. Finally, the loss of economic rents by patent attorneys, translators and lawyers, and the drop of controlling power by national patent offices elucidate further the persistence of a fragmented European patent system.<p> / Doctorat en Sciences économiques et de gestion / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished