Patents, Citations, and Innovations A Window on the Knowledge Economy
| Author/creator | Jaffe, Adam B. Author |
| Other author | Trajtenberg, Manuel Author |
| Other author | Romer, Paul M. Foreword by |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge : MIT Press |
| Description | 496 p. ill 09.000 x 06.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile HSS Monographs |
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| Summary | Annotation Innovation and technological change, long recognized as the main drivers of long-termeconomic growth, are elusive notions that are difficult to conceptualize and even harder to measurein a consistent, systematic way. This book demonstrates the usefulness of patents and citations dataas a window on the process of technological change and as a powerful tool for research on theeconomics of innovation. Patent records contain a wealth of information, including the inventors'identity, location, and employer, as well as the technological field of the invention. Patents alsocontain citation references to previous patents, which allow one to trace links acrossinventions.The book lays out the conceptual foundations for such research and provides a range ofinteresting applications, such as examining the geographic pattern of knowledge spillovers andevaluating the impact of university and government patenting. It also describes statistical toolsdesigned to handle methodological problems raised by the patent and citation processes. The bookincludes a CD with complete data on 3 million patents with more than 16 million citations and arange of author-devised measures of the importance, generality, and originality of patentedinnovations. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780262600651 |
| ISBN | 026260065X (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780262600651 |
| Stock number | 026260065X 00015994 |
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