Rassenfosse, Gaétan de; Dernis, Hélène; Guellec, … - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2012
This paper describes a new patent-based indicator of inventive activity. The indicator is based on counting all the … priority patent applications filed by a country’s inventors, regardless of the patent office in which the application is filed …, and can therefore be considered as a complete ‘matrix’ of all patent counts. The method has the advantage of covering more …