Power Law Distributions of Patents as Indicators of Innovation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  O'Neale, Dion R J ^a   Hendy, Shaun C ^a,b  

^a CALLAGHAN INNOVATION   (New Zealand)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; JAPAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PATENT; POLAND; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; PROCESS MODEL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH; SOCIAL EVOLUTION;

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATENTS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84870773622     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049501     Document Type: Article

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