Challenges for regional innovation policies in CEE countries: Spatial concentration and foreign control of US patenting

Science and Public Policy

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-14

  Lengyel, Balázs ^a,b   Sebestyén, Tamás ^c   Leydesdorff, Loet ^d  

^a Department of Economics   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Central and eastern europe; Germany; Map; Patents; Post socialism

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; MAP; POST-COMMUNISM; REGIONAL POLICY; SOCIALISM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 84939552641     PISSN: 03023427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scipol/sct087     Document Type: Article

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