Financial patenting in Europe

European Management Review

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-63

  Hall, Bronwyn H ^a,b   Thoma, Grid ^c,d   Torrisi, Salvatore ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^d BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

EPO; Financial patents; Payment systems innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650236320     PISSN: 17404754     EISSN: 17404762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/emr.2009.3     Document Type: Article

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