How to measure patent thickets-A novel approach

Economics Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 6-9

  Von Graevenitz, Georg ^a   Wagner, Stefan ^a,b   Harhoff, Dietmar ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complexity; Patent portfolio races; Patent thickets; Patenting

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751649972     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2010.12.005     Document Type: Article

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