Abstract
Information and communication technology (ICT) has been a driving force of development for knowledge-based economies. In particular, as competition in mobile communications technological innovation among nations becomes more intense, there are growing demands for improved evaluation, judgment, and prediction of mobile communications technological capability in order to improve national ICT competitiveness. Technological capability refers to conceptual-level elements that capture technological competitiveness in operation. A technological level can be defined for making comparisons of one technological capability with another. Patent statistics have been used by economists and researchers in the field of innovation to analyze current and forecast technological directions. This paper evaluates relative technological capability in terms of patent statistics for some technology domains. We propose a patent statistic model for relative technological capability based on patent activity, intensity, market-power, and citation index for mobile communications technologies at a national level. In particular, it gives a technological-level evaluation of 3G, 3G transitional, and 4G mobile communications for the US, EU, Japan, China, and Korea.
Highlights
Information and communication technology (ICT) has been a key driving force in development and diffusion for knowledge-based economies [1]
We analyzed patent data for public, notified, or registered patent applications filed with the national patent offices in the US, EU, Table 3 Selected patent statistics for technological-level evaluation (TLE)
Patent applications (PA) of nation i in technological field (TF) F ⇒ PAi F /PA for all competitors in F
Summary
Information and communication technology (ICT) has been a key driving force in development and diffusion for knowledge-based economies [1]. Technological competitiveness is important for national economic performance, with national introductions of stronger intellectual property rights, regulatory harmonization and standardization, and the worldwide spread of emerging ICT [5,6]. Technological capabilities are the conceptual-level elements that capture technological competitiveness in operation. A technological level can be defined as the relative technological capability to use technological knowledge efficiently and refers to the extent to which technological knowledge is accumulated, invested in, produced, and innovated. A technological level refers to the present status of technological accumulation and accomplishment based on past technological activities [4,7]. A technological-level evaluation (TLE) can be defined statistically by estimating and assessing the technological status in terms of technological performance and capacity at the time of the evaluation
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