Guerzoni, Marco; Aldridge, Taylor; Audretsch, David B; … - Laboratorio di Economia dell'Innovazione "Franco … - 2012
departure from the existing technological trajectories. When a patent protection is granted to a discovery, it is possible to … construct a proxy for the originality of the discovery based on patent citations. Patent originality has been long recognized in … impact of patent originality on a broad range of measures of firm performance, this paper aims at investigating the …