The location of innovative activity in Europe

Laura Abramovsky, Rachel Griffith, Gareth Macartney () and Helen Miller
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Gareth Macartney: Institute for Fiscal Studies and University College London

No W08/10, IFS Working Papers from Institute for Fiscal Studies

Abstract:

In this paper we use new data to describe how firms from 15 European countries organise their innovative activities. The data matches firm level accounting data with information on the patents that those firms and their subsidiaries have applied for at the European Patents Office. We describe the data in detail.

Keywords: International investment and multinational firms; technological change and research and development; fiscal policies and behaviour of economic agents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F21 F23 H3 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56 pp.
Date: 2008-11-04
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