Guellec, Dominique; Potterie, Bruno Van Pottelsberghe de la - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 11 (2002) 2, pp. 133-148
This paper explores the determinants of the probability for a patent application to result in a grant (as opposed to being rejected by the patent office or withdrawn by the patentee). A grant is interpreted as signaling the value of the invention. Guellec and van Pottelsberghe (2000) studied the...