Collective knowledge, prolific inventors and the value of inventions: An empirical study of French, German and British patents in the US, 1975-1999

Economics of Innovation and New Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-22

  Gay, Claudine ^a   Latham, William ^b   Le Bas, Christian ^a  

^a University of Lyon 2   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective knowledge; Patent value; Prolific inventors

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349847833     PISSN: 10438599     EISSN: 14768364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10438590701279193     Document Type: Article

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