Accounting for the recent surge in U.S. patenting: Changes in R&D expenditures, patent yields, and the high tech sector

Economics of Innovation and New Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 543-558

  Kim, Jinyoung ^a   Marschke, Gerald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Innovation; Patents; Technology and Research productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 37949029515     PISSN: 10438599     EISSN: 14768364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1043859032000124693     Document Type: Article

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