Benchmarking the Patent Portfolio: A Study of the Italian Wind Energy Manufacturing Industry

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A benchmarking study on innovation in the Italian wind energy manufacturing industry is presented. The study calculates a set of patent portfolio specialization indexes - RSI, PSI, and OPSI - to map companies and compare them to one leading international company considered as a benchmark in the industry, the Vestas Wind System A/S.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 838-841)

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3212-3217

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November 2013

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