“…In this sense, while studying companies' innovation performance, patent analysis is more reliable than scientific article bibliometrics, for example. In fact, patents have been widely used as a measure of innovation performance (Deorsola et al, 2013;Gao et al, 2013;Madeira, Borschiver and Pereira-Jr., 2013;Mendes, Amorim-Borher and Lage, 2013;Souza, Pinheiro and Takahashi, 2012a).…”