Joseph Straus (Director Emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Member of Academia Europaea) :
The book in unique way demonstrates how diverse, actually indispensable for successful management of technology innovation, the skillful use of available patent data has become. The reader of the book, be a scientist, researcher, technician, economist, academic involved in teaching and research of technological innovation, or politically responsible for it, will receive invaluable guidance.
Hanns Ullrich (Honorary professor, College of Europe):
A broader perspective determines many of the recent essays on the spatio-temporal dimension of patent protection, on the global convergence of patent protection as regards its systemic structure and strength, on international technology diffusion as supported by patents or, even more prominently, on the contribution patents may make to technology cooperation within the framework of the “Belt and Road Initiative” of the People’s Republic of China.
Dietmar Harhoff (Director of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina):
This collection will serve as a valuable reference for researchers, a teaching resource for universities, and a reliable guide for students and practitioners interested in understanding the dynamics of innovation and intellectual property in a rapidly changing environment.
Prof. Dr. Xiang YU is a full professor at the School of Management (2002) and the Director of the Sino European Institute for Intellectual Property of HUST (2018), as well as the Chinese-German Institute for Intellectual Property at the School of Management of Huazhong University of Science & Technology in Wuhan, China. From March 2017 to February 2026, Prof. Yu also held the post of the Vice President for International Cooperation of Hubei Normal University. His main research fields include Intellectual Property and International Trade, Patent Strategy and Technological Innovation, Licensing and Technology Transfer. He was the Director of the Chinese IP Team for the US-China CERC Project (2011-2020), and the Director of the Chinese IP Team for the China-EU/EEA NZEC-CCS Project (2013-2020). As a guest professor or speaker, he gives lectures and presentations regularly in Germany, France, Switzerland and many other countries. Prof. Yu was granted to be a German Alexander-von-Humboldt Research fellow in 2004 and was granted to be a JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) research fellow in 2006-2007. He is a Member of Academia Europaea Member of the National IP Experts Group of China (2005), visiting professor or lecture professor in many universities in China and other countries.