Sources of inspiration? Making sense of scientific references in patents

Scientometrics

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1617-1629

  Callaert, Julie ^a   Pellens, Maikel ^a   Van Looy, Bart ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Indicators; Inventor interviews; Non patent references; Science technology interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897574961     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-013-1073-x     Document Type: Article

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