"Wacky" patents meet economic indicators

Economics Letters

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 131-134

  Czarnitzki, Dirk ^a,b   Hussinger, Katrin ^a,b,c   Schneider, Cédric ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Patent indicators; Patents; Quality measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961113927     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.06.011     Document Type: Article

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