A measure of technological distance

Talia Bar and Aija Leiponen

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 116, issue 3, 457-459

Abstract: In this paper we construct an intuitive measure of technological distance. We compare it to previously used measures and show that it satisfies a desirable independence axiom that other commonly used measures fail to satisfy.

Keywords: Patents; Research and development; Technological distance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.04.030

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