Academic patents as an indicator of useful research? A new approach to measure academic inventiveness

Research Evaluation

Volumn 12, Issue 1 SPEC ISS., 2003, Pages 17-27

  Meyer, Martin ^a,b  

^a SYO Finnish Inst for Entpr Mgmt   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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EID: 1142307688     PISSN: 09582029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3152/147154403781776735     Document Type: Conference Paper

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