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Patent applications of the Top 500 foreign investment corporations in China

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The paper focuses on the Top 500 foreign investment corporations (FICs) in China, by conducting data mining and system searching on the data-base of patent from the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO). Structure of patent applications, industrial distribution of patent applications, monopolistic tendency, technological innovation of Chinese companies and directions of foreign investment are studied.

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  1. School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Zhong Guan-Cun South Road 5, Haidian Zone, Postcode 100081, Beijing, P. R. China

    Yun Liu

  2. School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei (P. R. China)

    Guo-ping Cheng

  3. School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing (P. R. China)

    Yu Yang

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Liu, Y., Cheng, Gp. & Yang, Y. Patent applications of the Top 500 foreign investment corporations in China. Scientometrics 68, 167–177 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-006-0089-x

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