Lens or Prism? Patent Citations as a Measure of Knowledge Flows from Public Research
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- 1 February 2013
- journal article
- Published by Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in Management Science
- Vol. 59 (2), 504-525
- https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1120.1644
Abstract
This paper assesses the validity and accuracy of firms' backward patent citations as a measure of knowledge flows from public research by employing a newly constructed data set that matches patents...Keywords
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