Do important inventions benefit from knowledge originating in other technological domains?

Research Policy

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 190-200

  Nemet, Gregory F ^a,b   Johnson, Evan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Citations; Invention; Knowledge flows; Patents; Spillovers

Indexed keywords

CITATIONS; INVENTION; KNOWLEDGE FLOW; PATENTS; SPILLOVERS;

ENGINEERING; INNOVATION;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 81855166230     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2011.08.009     Document Type: Article

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