We develop a framework for assessing innovation collaboration partners. Based on the studies explaining the internationalisation of inventive activity, we identify four elements relevant as drivers of innovation collaboration. These elements include inventive capacity, technological specialization patterns, openness to international innovation collaboration and economic potential of technology. In order to make the framework operational, we propose a set of patent-based indicators that capture the relevant elements. This way the proposed framework serves as a tool to both assess the potential of inventive collaboration and to anticipate benefits of such collaboration. In a second step, we apply the framework to analyse the attractiveness of BRIC countries as potential partners for innovation collaboration. Our analysis shows that BRICs do not only differ in terms of inventive performance, but also in terms of the openness to international collaboration or the economic potential of technology developed by these countries.

DE PRATO Giuditta;  NEPELSKI Daniel; 

2013-05-10

Publications Office of the European Union

JRC79395

978-92-79-29821-9,   

1831-9424,   

EUR 25958,    OP LF-NA-25958-EN-N,   

http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/pub.cfm?id=6179,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC79395,   

10.2791/12581,