Uses without too many abuses of patent citations or the simple economics of patent citations as a measure of value and flows of knowledge

Economics of Innovation and New Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 333-338

  Gay, C ^a   Le Bas, C ^a  

^a University of Lyon 2   (France)

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EID: 67650797632     PISSN: 10438599     EISSN: 14768364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1043859042000307310     Document Type: Article

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