Close to you? Bias and precision in patent-based measures of technological proximity

Research Policy

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1556-1567

  Benner, Mary ^a   Waldfogel, Joel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Innovation; Patents; Technological distance

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLUSTER ANALYSIS; RANDOM VARIABLES;

BOOTSTRAP; INNOVATION; PATENTS; SAMPLE SIZES; TECHNOLOGICAL DISTANCE;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 50949121163     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2008.05.011     Document Type: Article

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