WHAT WE KNOW ON PROLIFIC INVENTORS: EVIDENCE FROM A FIVE COUNTRIES UNITED STATES PATENTING DATA SET (1975–2002)

Christian Le Bas
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Christian Le Bas: GATE LSE (CNRS, University of Lyon), France

Chapter 9 in The Dynamics of Regional Innovation:Policy Challenges in Europe and Japan, 2011, pp 185-198 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractThe following sections are included:Introduction: Why the Accumulation of Human Capital of Knowledge is ImportantProlific Inventors: Survey of the LiteratureThe Economics of Prolificness: The Main Stylized FactsThe size of the relative population of prolific inventors differs across countries (see Table 8.1)The countries ranking that we found is coherent (correlated) with what we know about the main national technological indicators (see Table 8.2)Prolific inventors patenting is distributed unevenly by technological fieldsThere is a strong relationship between countries' technological specialization (measured by Revealed Technological Advantages Index) and the importance of prolific inventors (measured by their patenting).Some characteristics of inventors are different across the countries.The determinants of individual productivity: large similarity across countriesThe puzzling relationship between “prolificness” and patent valueA New Research Agenda for “Prolificness”: The Role of Organization and IndustryReferences

Keywords: Innovation; Innovation Policies; Clusters; Transfer of Technology; Srat-Up; Intellectual Property; Patents; Venture Capital; Europe; Japan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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