caa a22 4500 44534900X CHVBK 20180317142838.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11192-011-0396-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11192-011-0396-8 Chen Yu-Shan Department of Business Administration, National Taipei University, 151, University Rd., San Shia, 237, Taipei, Taiwan aut Using patent analysis to explore corporate growth [Elektronische Daten] [Yu-Shan Chen] This study applies patent analysis to discuss the influences of the three aspects of patent trait—a firm's revealed technology advantage in its most important technological field (RTAMIT), relative patent position in its most important technological field (RPPMIT), and patent share in its most important technological field (PSMIT)—upon corporate growth and discusses the moderation effect of relative growth rate of its most important technological field (RGRMIT) in the American pharmaceutical industry. The results demonstrate that the three relationships between corporate growth and the three aspects of patent trait are positive, and verify that RGRMIT moderates the three relationships. This study suggests that pharmaceutical companies should enhance their R&D capabilities, the degree of leading position, and concentration of R&D investment in their most important technological fields to increase their growth. Finally, this study classifies the pharmaceutical companies into four types, and provides some suggestions to them. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2011 Patent analysis nationallicence Corporate growth nationallicence Revealed technology advantage (RTA) nationallicence Relative patent position (RPP) nationallicence Patent share (PS) nationallicence Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 88/2(2011-08-01), 433-448 0138-9130 88:2<433 2011 88 11192 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0396-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0396-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Chen Yu-Shan Department of Business Administration, National Taipei University, 151, University Rd., San Shia, 237, Taipei, Taiwan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 88/2(2011-08-01), 433-448 0138-9130 88:2<433 2011 88 11192 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer