Does it matter where patent citations come from? Inventor vs. examiner citations in European patents

Research Policy

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1892-1908

  Criscuolo, Paola ^a   Verspagen, Bart ^b,c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNU MERIT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Local knowledge spillovers; Patent citations

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY;

ECONOMETRIC MODELS; EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICES; EUROPEANS; KNOWLEDGE FLOWS; LOCAL KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS; PAPER ADDRESSES; PATENT CITATIONS; STRATEGIC FACTORS; US PATENTS;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 55549114315     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2008.07.011     Document Type: Article

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