@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2021.0627, 

TITLE={The diffusion of biomedical engineering technologies: evidence from patent data}, 
  
AUTHOR={François-Xavier Meunier, }, 
	
JOURNAL={Technology and Innovation}, 
	
VOLUME={6}, 

NUMBER={Issue 2}, 
	
YEAR={2021}, 

URL={http://openscience.fr/The-diffusion-of-biomedical-engineering-technologies-evidence-from-patent-data}, 
	
DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2021.0627}, 
	
ISSN={2399-8571}, 
	
ABSTRACT={The aim of this paper is to identify some characteristics of the process of emergence of biomedical engineering technologies using patent data. [GKO 16] use the co-occurrences of technology allocations in patents to describe the phenomena of technology diffusion, which they understand as the ability of one technology to combine with others more frequently over time, so as to diversify its uses. We extend their approach and propose an empirical test to verify the impact of inventiveness and an exploration on the processes of diffusion used by these technologies in three different institutional environments: Europe, the United States and Japan over the period 1980-2015.}}