Spillover Pools and Patent Application Activity in Business Enterprises

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This study investigated whether technological management in the form of industry-academia-government collaboration is correlated with the results of research and development in Japanese industry. To accomplish this objective, utilizing data derived from Japan’s Survey of Research and Development and the Institute of Intellectual Property’s database, an empirical analysis of how spillover pools potentially available to business enterprises affect their patent application activities, was performed. Incorporating the Mahalanobis distance to take into account technological complementarity, the technological proximity between business enterprises was defined, and the spillover pools emanating from industry, academia, and government were respectively calculated. Designating the number of patent applications as the variable representing patent application activity, and considering that this variable constitutes non-negative count data, this study employed a panel poisson model to perform the estimations. The results demonstrated that spillover pools have a positive impact on patent application activity. Even when the respective spillover pools created by industry, academia, and government were analyzed, a positive impact on patent applications was evident. Further, this tendency remained intact, even when the spillover pools were calculated according to research type, i.e. basic research, applied research, and development research.

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  • ISS Research Series

    ISS Research Series (2), 1-25, 2018-05

    Association of Gakushuin International Social Sciences Studies

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