Patents and the Measurement of International Competitiveness

William Kingston and Kevin Scally

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Abstract: This highly original book represents a major advance in the use of patents to compare countries’ technological competitiveness. It tabulates and analyses 280,000 United States patents from countries across the world over a ten year period. Specifically, these patents were granted to ‘not-for-profit’ entities (mainly universities and research institutes), firms with no more than 500 employees, or to individual inventors. For each of these groups, the book provides statistics and discussion on how long patents are kept in force, the extent to which they are cited, and how far inventions made in different countries are in fact owned in the United States.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Innovations and Technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
ISBN: 9781843764441
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction

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Ch 2 OECD Small Entity Patents

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Ch 3 Nonprofit Patents (Including Universities)

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Ch 4 Small Firm Patents

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Ch 5 Individual Patents

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Ch 6 The Non-OECD Countries

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Ch 7 Summary and Conclusions

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