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The knowledge base of Big Tech: Research as a source of informational leadershi...
Mendonça, S.; Silva, E.; Damásio, B.Investing in research is an essential element in any business model in the digital age. At the forefront of this approach to innovation are digital platforms, which have resources and development strategies that enable them to enter and transform many markets outside their core activities. This work assembles a wealth of evidence to show that the omnipresence of Big Tech has now reached the science & technology...
The IPR of the beholder: The economics and strategy knowledge base of IPR, pate...
Mendonça, S.; Santos, A. T.The economics and strategy literature is a useful resource for professionals and policy-makers involved in patents, trademarks and other intellectual property rights (IPRs). Understanding how this knowledge accumulates is crucial for identifying, analyzing, evaluating, anticipating, and managing intangible assets. The role of IPR seems to be a touchstone for decision-makers as IPRs stand in the middle of micro ...
Accounting for Oslo Manual: Reflecting on the past and setting the stage for fu...
Paredes, A.; Damásio, B.; Mendonça, S.The Oslo Manual is the internationally recognized reference for guiding the collection and interpretation of evidence on innovation. This research explores its three-decade-long implementation and influence, emphasizing its role within the research community. We assess the content’s quantity and quality through an advanced bibliometric and textmetric analysis of over 1300 research papers published in internatio...
Banking on research: Who leads? Who follows? Who cares?
Vasconcelos, C.; Damásio, B.; Mendonça, S.This study sheds light on the diffusion of knowledge production as an institutional norm among central, development, and investment banks. It builds on an original database of 24,435 peer-reviewed scientific items published by a pool of 237 central banks, development banks, and investment banks from 1966 to 2023. The focus is on their interactive dynamics, analysed through a two-fold approach: Granger-Causality...
Assessing critical mineral occurrence in battery technologies
Camuamba, E.; Damásio, B.; Mendonça, S.The prevailing geopolitical context has amplified the centrality of core material inputs in the interaction between technological innovation, economic security, and the climate emergency. Battery technologies represent one of the frontiers in this evolving landscape. In this paper, we examine the link between innovation in these technologies and their material inputs, assessed in terms of mineral occurrence in ...
Institutional legacies and governance models: A comparative study of broadband ...
Manica, L.; Damásio, B.; Mendonça, S.This article explores how historical legacies and institutional configurations impact the governance models used in implementing State aid policies for broadband in France, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The analysis is based on historical institutionalism, focusing on path dependence, critical junctures, and gradual institutional change. A comparative historical approach shows different governance mo...
Keeping a close watch on innovation studies: Opening the black box of journal e...
Santos, A. T.; Mendonça, S.Editors are journals’ entrepreneurs, managers, and stewards. They have the duty of holding high standards of scholarly quality in terms of end product (articles) and due process (adequate peer-review procedures). Given the importance of journals in the contemporary science “ecosystem,” editors emerge as decisive power brokers. Elite board members are scrutinizers but, paradoxically, they are themselves seldom s...
State aid for broadband network deployment: National and subnational governance...
Manica, L.; Damásio, B.; Mendonça, S.This paper examines the governance models of State aid measures for broadband network deployment in European Union Member States. The research is based on 199 decision letters collected from the European Commission's competition cases database, published between 2003 and 2023. Deploying a theory-driven content analysis approach, the analysis reveals and categorises a variety of governance models. These models v...
Battery innovation and the circular economy: What are patents revealing?
Metzger, P.; Mendonça, S.; Silva, J. A.; Damásio, B.This analysis of over 90,000 secondary battery innovations (measured by international patent families) provides a comprehensive account of the long-run progress of a knowledge base with a key role in the transition to a transformative, closed-loop, Circular Economy. Innovation accelerated globally from 2000 to 2019, a sustained dynamic mostly originating in Asia. Patterns of less toxicity and more diversity in ...
Reconfiguring the battery innovation landscape
Silva, J.; Távora, G.; Mendonça, S.Batteries are critical for energy transition strategies. This paper offers a comprehensive assessment of the trends and developments of battery innovation. Over 700,000 patents from the period of 2005-2019 are compiled and analyzed. Leading patent applicants and countries of origin are identified. Major patent applicants are mostly large East Asian companies, while Japan and South Korea are the leading countrie...