University versus corporate patents: A window on the basicness of invention

Economics of Innovation and New Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-50

  Trajtenberg, Manuel ^a   Henderson, Rebecca ^b   Jaffe, Adam ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER   (Israel)

^c BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basic research; Citations; Innovation; Patents

Indexed keywords

EID: 85066182625     PISSN: 10438599     EISSN: 14768364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10438599700000006     Document Type: Article

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