摘要：
Technological skills of inventors have become important for innovation
and competitiveness of firms in the knowledge based industries.
With the emerging globalization, firms that make use of technological
competence of inventors worldwide innovate and prosper faster. The
present study examines how national or foreign firms leverage the
technological competence of inventors from Asian and other countries.
A related question has also been examined as to how these firms
leverage technological competence of inventors exclusively from
foreign countries without the involvement of inventors from their
own countries. The study presents a methodology for extracting relevant
data and analysis of bibliographic information in a patent document
to provide insights into firms’ innovation strategies, while
leveraging technological competences of inventors.
The case study of leveraging technological competence of inventors
from India, by foreign or national firms, has been presented in
detail to provide policy relevant understanding of the pattern of
distribution of assignee firms or other organizations leveraging
the competence a) by performing sector viz. industry, university
or government, b) by countries of origin of firms, c) the role of
key foreign or Indian firms, and d) the technical areas in which
technological competence is leveraged. Similar studies could be
undertaken in case of other countries, as well to formulate innovation
strategy and policy at the national or firm level.
