This paper summarizes a number of studies which use patent data to examine different aspects of technological change … estimation of the value of patent rights based on European patent renewal data; and describes the use of patent data to estimate … the importance of R&D spillovers. It concludes that patent data represent a valuable resource for the analysis of …

This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … recent research using patent data, focusing on major developments since Griliches in 1990 [Griliches, Z. (1990). “Patent … availability of patent data on an increasingly global scale and the accompanying global spread of research using patent data. The …

established knowledge. When recent advances create superior opportunities for invention, their adoption as research inputs in the … invention process promotes technological progress. The gains from pursuing such innovative research paths may, however, be very … the existing knowledge base. In this paper, we first develop a new approach to identifying research inputs in invention …

established knowledge. When recent advances create superior opportunities for invention, their adoption as research inputs in the … invention process promotes technological progress. The gains from pursuing such innovative research paths may, however, be very … the existing knowledge base. In this paper, we first develop a new approach to identifying research inputs in invention …