Essays on the propensity to patent: measurement and determinants

Chapter 1 discusses the econometric pitfalls associated with the use of patent production functions to study the invention process. It then goes on to argue that a sound understanding of the invention process necessarily requires an understanding of the propensity to patent. The empirical analysis c...

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Main Author: de Rassenfosse, Gaétan
Other Authors: Van Pottelsberghe, Bruno
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:en
Published: Universite Libre de Bruxelles 2010
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