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In order to cope with climate change, many countries and regions implement carbon emission reduction through market transaction and technological innovation. However, there are only few empirical studies on the relationship between these strategies. This paper uses 820,000 pieces of patent application data from 2005 to 2018 in China, and takes the region and time point of whether to implement carbon emissions trading as the demarcation point. It studies the impact of carbon emissions trading on climate change patent application based on the double difference model. The results demonstrate the following: (1) The implementation of carbon trading in China has a negative impact on the quantity and quality of climate change patent application and authorized patents. (2) The application entities and the number of applicants are affected by heterogeneity. Individuals, enterprises and colleges have all been negatively affected, and the negative impact on separate application is greater than that on the cooperative application. In view of this, we propose some suggestions as follows: (1) Various strategies should be designed properly, so that they each have their own emphasis and promote emission reduction in coordination. (2) Different regions adopt different strategies according to their emission reduction targets and their real conditions. (3) It is necessary to enhance public opinion guidance and publicity, and encourage emission reduction through technological innovation. This study can deepen the understanding of the relationship among various emission reduction strategies, and provide reference for the practical work of carbon emission reduction.

Employing annual data over the period 1996–2013 for 29 OECD countries, this paper explores the impact of corruption on domestic innovative activity, measured by the number of patent and trademark applications, via a linear panel fixed effect model and a nonlinear panel smooth transition regression with all lagged explanatory variables as instrumental variables and under the consideration of potential endogeneity biases. The results indicate several important findings. First, there exists a strong threshold effect between the control of corruption and levels of innovative activity across nations. Second, we note that corruption only has a substantial positive impact on innovation when it is over the threshold level, but not when a country has a seriously corrupt government with low bureaucratic quality, no matter for patent or trademark applications. Hence, heterogeneous beliefs about low transition speed show that OECD countries may not take actions instantly and identically to pursue better bureaucratic quality. Finally, we discover that an improvement over corruption presents greater impacts on patent applications than on trademark applications. Taken together, we confirm that corruption plays a fundamental role in determining innovation activities in OECD countries, offering meaningful policy implications for those policymakers and industries in accordance with our findings.

Australia's Chemeq to Start Independent Trials for Antimicrobial.

Metabolic Sees Positive Results for Obesity Drug Trial.

Bionomics Expands Drug Target Discovery Alliance with US Firm.

AustCancer Furthers International Strategic Alliance.

Avanir Signs Collaborative R&D Agreement with Chinese Company.

World Class Fertilizer Production Line to Debut in Northwest China.

Shanghai Scicon Develops Chip System for Detecting Multi-Tumor.

Bristol-Myers Squibb and GlaxoSmithKline Lower Prices for Longer-Patent Deals in China.

GSK to Focus More on R&D in China.

Nicholas Piramal India to Tie Up with Gland Pharma.

Sumitomo Electric Develops New Hair-Growth Substance.

Olympus Develops World's First DNA Computer for Gene Analysis.

Sakai Chemical and Theratechnologies to Develop and Market ThGRF Peptide in Japan.

Korea's Isu Chemical Buys into UK Biotechnology Firm.

Sanofi-Synthelabo to Market DVT Drug in Malaysia.

Mead Johnson Set for Another Year of Healthy Growth.

Malaysia Glove Maker Tops in US and Europe Glove Imports.

New Zealand's Genesis and Landcare to Research into Grey Mould Genetics.

Singapore's AP Genomics to Launch Innovative Dengue Diagnostic Kit.

ViaCell Sets up R&D Stem Cell Lab in Singapore.

Intel Provides IT Supports for Singapore's Biomedical Grid.

Singapore-Based Osim Targets 500 Outlets Globally By 2005.

ITRI to Launch Biochip Consortium in Taiwan.

Three Taiwan Firms to Jointly Develop Chinese Medicine.

Bionomics Files Patent Application for Epilepsy Gene Discoveries.

Autogen Obtains Australian Patent for Obesity Gene.

Prima Biomed Adds to its Anti-inflammatory IP Portfolio.

Nicholas Piramal’s First NCE Patent Filed.

Fonterra Seeks Patent in Milk Proteins.

This paper presents a brief overview of intellectual property rights and the various areas in proteomics to which IP rights may be applicable. Technology transfer, including licensing and business agreements, is not covered in this paper. Instead, issues and complications that are related to national and overseas patent prosecution in this relatively new field would be discussed.

Increased Popularity of Food Labels among Consumers.

Biotechnology Offers Solutions for Sustaining Agricultural Growth.

Avestha Gengraine Granted Patent for New Transgenic Technology.

Controversy over Regulation of Bt Cotton.

Japan Prefers Taiwanese Agricultural Produce.

The article is about the industry’s need for intellectual protection rights. It touches on the IP system: patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and exclusive drug approvals.

Building Biotech Without Building Companies.

Japan's Bio Ventures Today—GNI Ltd.

Ten Tips for Science Entrepreneurs.

Can APAC become a global leader in biosimilars?

The State of Biosimilars in 2013: A Progress Report on the Regulatory Environment.

Addressing the Unique Challenges of Running Biosimilar Clinical Trials.

Generics, Supergenerics and the Patent Cliff.

Regional Experts Urging Stakeholder Collaboration to Address Burden of Osteoporosis at IOF 6th Asia-Pacific Meeting

Cardinal Health Announces New Strategic Distribution Agreements to Expand Cordis’ Cardiovascular Product Offerings in Asia Pacific

Exco InTouch Granted US Patent for Its Ground-breaking Mobile Health Solutions

GE Healthcare and Valneva Collaboration Delivers Optimized Cell Culture Medium for Vaccine Production

Singapore's Restalyst Develops More Effective Test Kit for Liver Cancer

Bayer Collaborates with Singapore National Eye Centre to Take the Lead in Professional Development of Ophthalmologists Across Asia

Partnerships and Innovation: Shaping the Future of Healthcare in Asia Pacific

Chugai's Novel Antibody Technologies Put Singapore at the Centre of Fight Against Disease

NCCS AND SGH Conducts Systematic Molecular Profiling of Lung Cancers to Identify New Treatment Opportunities

Inova Translational Medicine Institute Partners with Cloudera to Advance Genome-Based Machine Learning Initiatives and Save Lives.

INVOKANA™ (canagliflozin) Significantly Reduces the Combined Risk of Cardiovascular Death, Myocardial Infarction and Stroke in the CANVAS Program.

Future Health Index Commissioned by Philips Reveals Singaporeans Underestimate Adoption of Connected Care Technology, and Highlights Need for More Focus on Preventive Healthcare.

Singaporeans’ Pain Costs Economy USD 6.2 billion Each Year.

Vetter and Microdermics Enter into a Strategic Cooperation Agreement to Develop Innovative Microneedle Drug Delivery Systems.

Merck Awarded its First CRISPR Patent by Australian Patent Office.

Zebra Boosts Healthcare Portfolio with New Visibility Solutions and Partnership with GE Healthcare.

Look to Asia for generic manufacturing.

Since Taiwan and U.S. integrated circuit (IC) industries cluster in Hsinchu Science Industrial Park (HSIP) and Silicon Valley, respectively, these IC firms can easily imitate any innovation through the interactions among intra-industry firms. The contribution of intra-industry innovation development to firms' technological advancement is defined as the "spillover effect". This paper compares how the innovation characteristics and industrial clustering influence the spillover effects. The results show the research and development (R&D) spillover effects in IC manufacturing, packaging and testing industries appear evidently greater than those in IC design industry, while the patent spillover effect exhibits greater for IC design industry than for the other IC industries. Similar production stages in IC manufacturing, packaging and testing industries enable firms to easily imitate R&D outcomes within the same industry. By contrast, the production process of IC design firms is diversified, so they hardly upgrade their technical skills through the interchange of R&D information within the same industry. Hence, the IC design firms, which focus on product innovation, rely more on patent licensing to develop core technology innovation. Finally, R&D spillover effect is evidently greater in U.S. IC design industry than in Taiwan IC design industry, while patent spillover effect appears greater in Taiwan IC design industry than in U.S. IC design industry. The IC design industry in U.S. free-rides intra-industry R&D outcomes more easily than that in Taiwan. Consequently, Taiwan IC design firms rely on patent spillovers to develop IC elements, which are compatible with the incumbent IC products.

This paper documents the relationship between appropriation instruments and the innovation activity in Tunisia. It focuses on the factors that determine the appropriation of innovation activities like the value of sales of the firms, networking, science–industry linkage, competitive pressure and demand pull. To this end, we suggest an econometric analysis of 586 Tunisian firms using simple and bivariate logit regressions. We find significant interaction effects between appropriability and R&D activity. The results confirm that patenting is primarily driven by firm-level factors, not by industry affiliation. Access to external knowledge and firm's specific characteristics are the most linked factors to the innovation protection. Firms that use appropriation instruments have a higher probability of investing in R&D than others. Indeed, the capacity to integrate external knowledge and performing R&D (networking, science–industry linkage, cooperation with other firms, belonging to a group) is related to the use of appropriation instruments. We find that appropriation instruments have a significant effect on product innovation. The effect on process innovation is not significant for Tunisian firms.

Engineers and designers from automotive and aerospace sectors have been using 3D printing (3DP) for decades to build prototypes. However, 3DP became popular only recently. This paper is divided into three sections. Section 1 is introductory in nature, which deals with current trends, the modeling process of printing and deliberation on different categories of 3DP. Section 2 deals with the research methodology. An exquisite technique to study innovation dealing with time series data, called the vector autoregression (VAR), is performed to analyze the world patent data on 3DP, based on the information provided by the Government of UK and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Section 3 attempts to forecast future trends on 3DP by using two techniques viz. impulse response function and variance decomposition. The VAR analysis performed revealed that GDP is not directly instrumental in the advancement in patenting of 3DP technology. Results captured by way of impulse response function suggest that when a shock is given to PR itself, it decreases sharply, whereas when a shock is given to investment, PR undergoes a steady decline. Thus, if there is any adverse shock imparted on investments, it directly reduces the patent ratio. Lastly, when an impulse is given to GDP, PR continuously increases, which implies that increase in GDP causes hike in investment which ultimately increases PR. The results of variance decomposition indicate that in the initial periods, PR itself explains the maximum variance, followed by the GDP and to the least by investment. The changes observed with the trend of explanatory character of variance imply that more investments in technology are instrumental in increasing patent ratio in the G7 countries as per the vector error correction (VEC) model developed here. Though during the nascent stage of emerging technologies investment in technology may not necessarily increase the patent ratio, the result obtained brings to light interesting insights.

This literature review explores the factors influencing a firm’s decision to patent its innovation. From the review of the available literature, some factors were identified which are related to the degree of codification or simplicity of knowledge and characteristics of a company or firm. We discovered that patent propensity vary among firms, industry, and country. The influencing factors on a firm’s patent propensity were discovered to be both internal and external. The literature review will provide assistance to researchers in understanding the factors influencing patent propensity.

This study investigates the factors influencing the Chinese manufacturing industry’s innovation and industrial performance utilizing a panel data approach on a sample of Chinese manufacturing enterprises over the period of 2008–2013. The industries were grouped according to related sectors into five groups, a general group was also created which included the whole data sample. The study found that research and development (R&D) expenditure positively influenced the growth of product innovation and industrial performance, but not necessarily knowledge innovation and export performance. Also, expenditure on new product development had a positive impact on both innovation and industrial performance. The growth of patent application was discovered to be influenced by an R&D project and foreign patent license. Finally, the number of enterprises and firm size (i.e. number of employees) contributed positively to the industrial output performance. The findings suggest that industrial R&D and new product development influences the success of product innovation and sales performance. The study recommends that the government should set up policies that will stimulate industrial R&D, while supporting technology transfers from foreign partners. Most importantly, government policies on the development of the industry should be addressed on a sectorial level and not a “one-size-fit-all” type of policy.

With the rapidly changing business environment, the dynamic capability of an enterprise begins with sensing and grasping technology opportunities. Considering that the knowledge gaps between science and technology hinder the exploration of technology opportunities, previous studies proposed methods to extract technology opportunities by identifying the knowledge gaps between science and technology literature. This study improves upon previous methods for identifying knowledge fields contained in the literature by introducing a deep learning-based clustering approach. This study also proposes a way to reduce experts’ workloads in determining gaps in the field between science and technology literature. The key idea of the proposed method is to include technologies other than the technology in question. Additionally, pyrolysis technology can convert plastic wastes into useful materials and is considered a green technology. Therefore, this study applies our improved method to explore the technology opportunities of pyrolysis technology. The results show that our method can effectively identify technology opportunities. In the case of plastic wastes, the results show that recovering carbon fibers from plastic wastes and recycling metals from e-waste plastics are expected to be prevailing technological fields.