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Technological specialization and patenting strategies in East Asia — Insights from the electronics industry

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We elicit filing strategies for patent families in China and Japan in two prominent technology fields: telecommunications and audiovisual technology. For the two destination countries we find substantial heterogeneity in filing strategies among applications from different countries. This heterogeneity cannot be explained with activities in technological subfields.

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Sternitzke, C. Technological specialization and patenting strategies in East Asia — Insights from the electronics industry. Scientometrics 78, 69–76 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-007-1988-1

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