Myriam Mariani

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of the inventors of 9017 European patented inventions is presented, which provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the motivations to invent, and the actual use and economic value of the patents.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors employed data from a large-scale survey (InnoS&T) of inventors in Europe, the USA, and Japan who were listed in patent applications filed at the European Patent Office with priority years between 2003 and 2005.

TL;DR: Data pertaining to 4,623 European inventions and direct information about the use of knowledge sources confirm that firms reduce their use of external knowledge sources when they conduct costly research projects in locations characterized by high levels of absorptive capacity in a specific technology.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between the location of R&D and production activities and found that the higher the science-intensity of a sector, the lessimportant is the linkage with production.

TL;DR: It is argued that inventors with larger patent records generate a higher rate of inventions, but the single inventions that they generate each have a lower probability of being a breakthrough, and the role of organizational contexts in shaping inventors’ productivity is confirmed.