Acta academica karviniensia 2015, 15(2):55-70 | DOI: 10.25142/aak.2015.018

SELECTED SYSTEMIC CONCLUSIONS OF PATENT ANALYSIS ON NANOTECHNOLOGY IN THE EU-28

Marek Jemala1, Ľubomír Jemala2
1 Ústav priemyselného inžinierstva a manažmentu, MTF STU, Paulínska 16, 917 24 Trnava, Email: marek.jemala@stuba.sk
2 Oddelenie ekonomiky a manažmentu podnikania, Ústav manažmentu STU , Vazovova 5, 812 43 Bratislava, Email: lubomir.jemala@stuba.sk

Certain fundamentals of the nanotechnology (NT) discipline can be already found in 1870, when two professors Elihu Thomson and Edwin Houston experimented and later patented inventions on the existing arc lamps and dynamo design. The emergence of NT as a new scientific discipline can be found a hundred years later and it is also connected with the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope and the discovery of fullerenes. Among the first companies that patented NT were: General Electric, Unisys, Honeywell, DuPont, Bell Labs, and IBM. Among the first patenting areas of NT were: nano-materials, nano-manufacturing and nano-interactions. This scientific study has two particular goals. Methodological part (Chapter 1 and 2) provides a clear insight into selected topical issues of patenting, searching and categorization of NT. This part is often overlooked/simplified in many scientific papers on NT, which brings a lot of uncertainty for this discipline. The second part is the systemic analysis (Chapter 3) that is to provide a clear insight into the patented NT in the EU, based on the comprehensive statistics of the European database of EPO patents (1940-2015). But, the main scientific goal of this study is to make some conclusions for the promotion of innovation and patenting NT in the EU.

Keywords: European nanotechnology patents, Nanotechnology, Patenting nanotechnology, Searching and categorization of nanotechnology
JEL classification: O31, O32, O34, O52

Received: March 30, 2015; Accepted: September 23, 2015; Published: June 30, 2015  Show citation

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