Search results for "Patent"

Review article: recommended reading list of early publications on atomic layer deposition - outcome of the "virtual Project on the History of ALD"

2017

Atomic layer deposition (ALD), a gas-phase thin film deposition technique based on repeated, self-terminating gas-solid reactions, has become the method of choice in semiconductor manufacturing and many other technological areas for depositing thin conformal inorganic material layers for various applications. ALD has been discovered and developed independently, at least twice, under different names: atomic layer epitaxy (ALE) and molecular layering. ALE, dating back to 1974 in Finland, has been commonly known as the origin of ALD, while work done since the 1960s in the Soviet Union under the name "molecular layering" (and sometimes other names) has remained much less known. The virtual proj…

Intellectual property rights and economic growth

2015

Striving for greater economic growth, requires a great understanding of the underlying factors. One of the factors may be the intellectual property rights and the level of its protection. Whether it is and how does it behave are the questions answered by this thesis. The theoretical framework comes mainly from the Schumpeterian growth model. The empirical methodology uses GMM in order to obtain reliable results. The level of intellectual property rights protection in the country does seem to have a positive effect on the country’s growth rate. Furthermore it seems that the relation is non-linear: The incremental changes are different between low and high starting levels of the IPR protectio…

Teknologian välityksen liiketoiminnalliset mahdollisuudet Suomessa

2006

IPR-instituutiot teknologisen kehityksen määrittäjinä

2022

Aineettomien oikeuksien (Intellectual Property Rights, IPR) instituutioiden kuten patentti- ja tavaramerkkijärjestelmien kehityksellä on erityinen rooli tutkimus- ja kehitysinvestointien (T&K), innovaatiotoiminnan sekä teknologisen kehityksen määrän ja suunnan määrittäjinä. Tässä artikkelissa keskitytään IPR-instituutioihin teknologisen kehityksen määrittäjinä ja tarkastellaan ilmiötä suomalaisesta näkökulmasta. Pitkällä aikavälillä aineettoman omaisuuden ja sen suojaamisen merkitys taloudessa, yritysten liiketoiminnassa ja innovaatiotuottojen saamisessa on kasvanut, samalla kun kansallisia ja kansainvälisiä IPR-järjestelmiä on kehitetty ja yhdenmukaistettu. IPR-instituutioiden kehityksen p…

Tecniche di Produzione del Cemento Traslucido

2012

The aim of the paper is to investigate different techniques used by some companies nowadays involved in the production of panels or blocks made of translucent cement. For doing that, the patents registered all over the world starting from the 2000 have been studied in deep, in order to acquire more detailed information about the techniques of production and to overcome the limits due to the lack of information about this subject that is difficult to find in literature. Particularly, patents by LitraConTM, Luccon, Lucem, Italcementi have been investigated; these last four industries are, at the moment, the only ones able to make in Europe translucent cement elements by using different techni…

Innovation expectations and patenting in private and public R&D projects

2017

peer-reviewed In this paper, we investigate how the innovation expectations of public financiers are related to realized patents. The analysis is based on a novel dataset of collaborative R&D projects subsidized by the Finnish Agency of Technology and Innovation (Tekes) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) during the period 2000–2004. Innovation expectations are measured using reports submitted by Tekes experts during ex ante assessments of projects. Our probit model results reveal that Tekes’ patent expectations are positively related to realized patents for projects led by private firms (but not by public organizations). For large organizations, Tekes’ innovation expectations…