Title: Selective Information on the National System of Innovation as an important input for the Technology Management of Firms

Authors: Helmut Gassler, Josef Frohlich, Alexander Kopcsa

Addresses: Austrian Research Centre Seibersdorf, Department of Systems Research Technology-Economy-Environment, A-2444 Seibersdorf, Austria. ' Austrian Research Centre Seibersdorf, Department of Systems Research Technology-Economy-Environment, A-2444 Seibersdorf, Austria. ' Austrian Research Centre Seibersdorf, Department of Systems Research Technology-Economy-Environment, A-2444 Seibersdorf, Austria

Abstract: This paper is focused on findings derived from the use of patents as a proxy of inventive and innovative activities. Accordingly, we explore some facts about the structure of the Austrian national system of innovation using patent statistics, and combining these data with a firm data bank from the statistical information system at the Austrian Research Centre, Seibersdorf. Firstly, we give an insight into the structure of the Austrian national innovation system, focusing on the technological specialisation profile. Secondly, we position Austria in the international patent |landscape|, and demonstrate the main discrepancies between Austrian and worldwide patenting activities. Thirdly, we present some results on the domestic patenting activities in Austria at the firm level, and discuss a matrix which contains data on patent applications broken down by industrial sector of origin and several technology fields based upon an aggregation of IPC-3 digits. Thus we are able to analyze the interdependence between industrial sectors and technology fields in Austria.

Keywords: national systems of innovation; technology management; Austria; patents; patenting activities.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTM.1996.025436

International Journal of Technology Management, 1996 Vol.11 No.3/4, pp.329 - 342

Published online: 22 May 2009 *

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