This project analyzes which universities are prolific in patent filing in the healthcare technology sector and the co-application of patents by companies and universities.

This project collects and analyzes relevant patents in a frontier technology field, performs a landscape analysis, designs appropriate patent value assessment methods, and uses this evaluation method to find the target patents and companies that are valuable to a client company.

The development of the Internet of Things (IoT) industry has accelerated in recent years and has attracted attentions from various governments in the world. This project analyzes patent competition in the IoT industry of one province.

Based on the Annual Survey of Industrial Enterprises and China Patent Abstract Database, the project analyzes R&D and patenting activities of Chinese high technology companies.

This project conducts a literature review to compare the role of IP in promoting the development of science and technology economy and industries in the USA, Europe, Japan and South Korea and to investigate how the value of IP (an important intangible asset) is realized in these markets.

This research employs patent family indicators to establish a database and statistical indices that reflect overseas patenting activities of companies from particular cities in the USA, Europe, Japan and South Korea.

This project studies technology companies of various types from a particular city, analyzing strategic plans and practices of their IP management in order to gain a better understanding of the problems that the companies face and their demand for policy supports.

The research reviews the empirical literature, in both Chinese and English, on China’s technology transfer policies both in Chinese or English which mainly cover three aspects: 1） Reform of China’s science and technology system and how the trend of innovation activities evolves in China.

The research objective is to identify corporate IP licensing or transfer corporate behaviors for companies operating in medical and healthcare devices and high technology fields.

This project provides an overview of China’s overseas patent application activities. Extending the work on the triadic patent family (i.e., USA-Europe-Japan) proposed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) the project researches two new patent family indicators namely an alternative triadic patent family (i.e., China-USA-Europe) indicator and a quadric patent family (i.e., China-USA-Japan-Europe) indicator.

This project researches the saturation of patents and its relationship with industry and technology development. It aims to propose an optimal patent saturation threshold to guide industrial development and the development of a patent system itself.

The number of patent applications submitted to the State Intellectual Property Office of China has been growing rapidly in recent years. Yet the development of a patent market in China is still lagging behind compared to other advanced countries in the world. A well operating patent market will play an important part in promoting technology commercialization and patent monetization.

The objective of this project is to provide an overview of the research and innovation system in China discuss the public and private funding of research and innovation and expenditure framework conditions for research and innovation and internationalization of research and innovation in China.