This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … surveys such as the “innovation survey” of firms and the inventor survey. They have deepened our understanding of the …

sectors. In addition, a firm’s survival and growth are regressed with patenting and open innovation (measured by joint patent …

This paper presents the results of a comprehensive analysis of the innovation activities of the entire population of … regressed with patenting and open innovation (measured by the joint patent application with other firms and universities …). Results show that innovation activities measured by patenting are positively correlated with firm performance. Furthermore …