Patent Activity and Economic Leadership
The paper describes the results of an empirical study of world patent leaders annually determined by Thomson Reuters, as well as the biggest companies from the Forbes Global 2000 List. The results of the system analysis of main indicators for the patent and economic leaders in the industries and countries are brought. The searching statistical dependencies between the main financial indicators and patent activity companies was carried out. It has been established that there is a significant relationships between the patent activity and financial indicators for world economic leaders that differ for industries. The results obtained permit to compare the average values of the strongest representatives in different industries and make some practical conclusions, useful for strategic decision-making.