The CO (Cooperation) indicator is calculated by counting the number of legally independent patent coassignees. Subsidiary cooperation are not counted. Finally, counts are normalized by year, country of
jurisdiction and main IPC/CPC.
| /High/ A high CO value reflects a tendency to develop technologies in cooperation with other companies. IPlytics makes use of corporate tree information to rule out subsidiary and parent company cooperation. |
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| /Low/ A low CO value reflects a tendency to develop technologies without cooperating with other companies but conducting research rather internally. |