recently, the report of shandong top 100 patent innovation enterprises (2018), which was jointly completed by shandong institute of science and technology information and qingdao institute of science and technology information, was released for the first time. at the same time, the list of top 100 patent innovation enterprises in shandong province in 2018 was published. zibo city has nine units including shandong bluestar dongda co.,ltd. and so on, which were selected as the first batch of top 100 shandong patent innovation enterprises.