A policy insight into the R&D-patent relationship

Research Policy

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 779-792

  de Rassenfosse, Gaetan ^a,b   van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Bruno ^b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b SOLVAY BRUSSELS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT   (Belgium)

^c Solvay SA   (Belgium)

^d BRUEGEL   (Belgium)

^e CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Patstat; Priority filing; Propensity to patent; Research productivity; S T policy

Indexed keywords

PRODUCTIVITY;

EMPIRICAL MODELS; PATSTAT; PRIORITY FILING; PROPENSITY TO PATENT; RESEARCH EFFORTS; RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICIES; TWO COMPONENTS;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 64449083444     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2008.12.013     Document Type: Article

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