International Knowledge Diffusion and Home-bias Effect: Do USPTO and EPO Patent Citations Tell the Same Story?

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 441-470

  Bacchiocchi, Emanuele ^a   Montobbio, Fabio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Knowledge flows; O31; O33; O34; Patent citations; Patents; Spillovers

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE; SPILLOVER EFFECT; TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649465554     PISSN: 03470520     EISSN: 14679442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2010.01614.x     Document Type: Article

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