Unitary patent system and innovation dynamics in the European Union: The role of economic resources and R&D investments

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://jemi.edu.pl/vol-21-issue-2-2025" target="_blank" >https://jemi.edu.pl/vol-21-issue-2-2025</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7341/20252126" target="_blank" >10.7341/20252126</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Unitary patent system and innovation dynamics in the European Union: The role of economic resources and R&D investments

Original language description

PURPOSE: The EU supports competitiveness and sustainability via innovations by the patent protection of inventions. On 1stJune 2023, the EU launched the Unitary Patent System (UPS) with the Unitary Patent as a universal innovation protection tool.The data regarding its first 20 months of operations offers indices about innovation and patenting trends. METHODOLOGY: Thecontextual exploration of the UPS was projected into four aims addressing the absolute and relative numbers of Unitary Patents(A1) and the relationship between Unitary Patents and GDP per capita (A2) and GERD (A3) and comparatively juxtaposing them(A4). This deeper contextual understanding of Unitary Patenting dynamic entails EU member states and their top four competitors(China, Japan, South Korea, USA). The data regarding the GDP, GDP per capita, GERD, number of Unitary Patents in total andper millions of inhabitants was collected and visualized via tables and charts, and submitted to a critical comparison. FINDINGS:The first 20 months of the UPS operations suggests that the Unitary Patent is a viable, but not the most popular, patenting option,and that there is a positive impact on the GDP per capita and GERD for the majority of the EU member states and that thereare differences between EU member states in their efficiency to generate Unitary Patents. IMPLICATIONS: The performedstudy confirms the parallel co-existence of various patenting strategies and the importance of investments in patented inventions.However, the size of GDP per capita followed by GERD is a mere pre-requirement that leads to diversified efficiency (even amongsimilar jurisdictions with at least an average GDP per capita and GERD. Arguably, the UPS magnifies the differences, and thesix original European integration jurisdictions are not the best UPS players. There are indices about positive trends for NorthernEU member states and negative trends for Southern EU member states. ORIGINALITY AND VALUE: This is a pioneeringcontribution regarding a newly launched system showing that, despite the same regime, EU member states differ dramatically intheir approach to patenting and that the level of GDP per capita and GERD are just the starting points.

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of ENTREPRENEURSHIP, MANAGEMENT and INNOVATION

ISSN

2299-7075

e-ISSN

2299-7326

Volume of the periodical

21

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

98-115

UT code for WoS article

001518613400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105008128259