Moreover, Taiwan’s international trading relationship with the US, Japan, and European Union cannot explain its extreme patenting performance. Compared to other countries, Taiwan’s ration of patents in triadic patent families to the US patent is lower than 40 countries in all technology fields. We endeavor to explain the discrepancy between US patents and triadic patent families. This study adopts a statistical method to verify Taiwan’s patent performance as outlier among 40 major countries. In those ranking results, Taiwan exhibits inconsistent performance by different indicators, ranking fourth by the number of USPTO-granted patents (US patents) but twenty-second by the number of triadic patent families (TPF). These indicators are usually used by many internationally-renowned ranking institutions to measure innovative activities at country level. Issued patents are frequently maneuvered as indicators for measuring innovative technology development.
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