Patent statistics: Deciphering a 'real' versus a 'pseudo' proxy of innovation

Technovation

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 783-790

  Watanabe, Chihiro ^a   Tsuji, Youichirou S ^a   Griffy Brown, Charla ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Patent statistics; Patentometrics; Pseudo proxy of innovation; US Foreign Priority Patents

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INVESTMENTS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PATENT STATISTICS;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 0035546379     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4972(01)00025-6     Document Type: Article

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