Abstract:

Strength the science and technology cooperation with countries along the Belt and Road is the issues drawing the close attention of government and academia. By searching the patents in USTPO and papers in the Web of Science, we analyze the national distribution, time series distribution, the principal applicant (institution), and the main technological field. The first finding is that scientific and technological cooperation on the whole maintained growth trend which can be divided into three stages: initial stage, rapid growth period and stable growth period. Second, knowledge innovation cooperation is more active than technological innovation cooperation, and the number of cooperation paper is more than 9 times the cooperation patent. Third, there are unbalanced characteristics in the cooperation areas. The number of cooperation patent and cooperation paper in the top five countries accounted for 82.1% and 53.2% of the total number respectively. Fourth, the concentration degree of the cooperation patent applicant and the cooperation paper are relatively high. The patent applicant takes the enterprise as the main body. Last but not least, Cooperation in the technology field and direction is much focused. Cooperation patent focused on digital data processing, semiconductor devices, wireless communication networks’ etc.. Cooperation papers focused on physics, engineering, chemistry, etc.. The conclusions can provide reference for the development of technological cooperation and policy making in the future.

Key words: The belt and road, Cooperation patent, Cooperation paper, Science and technology cooperation, Patent searching