Abstract
Abstract: Patent data is a key source of information for innovation economists. In recent decades it has been possible to observe its significant diffusion and success mainly thanks either to archives digitization or to authorities’ greater openness with respect to patent granting procedure. Furthermore, the use of this information over time has not been limited to simple statistics on patents and their classification, but, going further, has extended to the analysis of applicants, inventors, citations, and much more. By this seminal paper, we are going to analyze starting from Data analysis related to a selection of Balkanic Countries, chosen among the most dynamic in innovation process and production of patents: Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. How it will explain into the work, this selection was not accidental: the aim was to represent the evolution of these Countries, in terms of patent internationalization, depending on their “link” with the European Union, not all Western Balkan Countries are in fact part of it. Croatia, an official EU member since 2012, was chosen as the representative state of European influence. Some interesting results were obtained with a novel approach by social network analysis techniques.
Highlights
To the development of a similar research base and infrastructure for patent bibliometry, that is, for the use of patents, and patent citations in the evaluation of technological assets
Crescenzi et al in their work examine the characteristics of collaborations between inventors in the United Kingdom (UK) by observing which types of proximity – geographic, organizational, cognitive, social and cultural – ethnic – among inventors are prevalent in the partnerships that has led to technological progress [7]
For the purposes of our analysis on the internationalization of research groups, only the patents registered from 2010 to 2017 were taken into consideration and, in relation to the period of time considered, the patents registered in Croatia decreased from 150 to 100, those in Serbia from 68 to 56 and from 9 to 6 those registered in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Summary
To the development of a similar research base and infrastructure for patent bibliometry, that is, for the use of patents, and patent citations in the evaluation of technological assets. Rabkin & Inhaber were among the first scholars to analyze the scientific interactions of Argentina, Brazil and Norway in terms of citations and references to the scientific literature taken into consideration [5] In their work they show how these three nations heavily cite the publications of the central nations as opposed to those of their own country. Another interesting and systematic study on the development of the problem of science and technology policy in the peripheric areas of the Third World is that of Moravcsik in [11]. Knowledge networks made up of links between elements of knowledge and social networks made up of interactions between inventors both play a key role in innovation
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